Great news!

Thank you Andreas for your persistence in freeing libcolt. I've added the
task of testing with libjung-java with your new package to my list.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think after about three years of trying we finally might be able to
> free those projects depending from libcolt-java.  The new
> libcolt-free-java was created by simply removing the non-free code[2].
> So with some luck that this code is not really used (first tests are
> promising for all packages currently inside Debian) we can move these
> packages to main.  In case the removed code might be needed the option
> to package freehep jaida which is the (free!) successor of the project
> the non-free code was derived from.
>
> The first target I was now trying to tackle is libdsol1-java which was
> injected into SVN[3] by Tim.  However this project has several problems
> which are not actually related to libcolt.  Tim, could you please help
> sorting this out?
>
>  1. The debian/get-orig-source.sh file was pointing to a CVS which does
>     not seem to exist any more.  The project was moved to SourceForge
>     CVS but I have no idea how we could drain series 1.6.x from there.
>
>  2. Despite the fact that debian/get-orig-source.sh said:
>      # We just assume that DSOL is v1.6.9 as it's not been updated in ever.
>     the download page[4] has 1.6.10
>
>  3. To complete the confusion about versions the dsol-1.6 folder on
>     SourceForge[5] has version 1.6.2 and 1.6.6
>
>  4. In march 2014 2.1.0 was released on SourceForge[6] and this is
>     most probably based on the code the debian/get-orig-source.sh I
>     have commited now is fetching from CVS.
>
> Tim, could you please check out whether version 2.1.0 of libdsol will
> work for your final target?  Since this seems to be maintained I would
> prefer to package this.  If this is not the case I would volunteer to
> contact the authors about a reliable way to fetch the source of the
> latest 1.6.x series files.
>
> Kind regards
>
>          Andreas.
>
> [1]
> https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-packaging/2015-March/031703.html
> [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2015/03/msg00066.html
> [3] svn://
> anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/libdsol1-java/trunk/
> [4] http://sk-3.tbm.tudelft.nl/dsol/1.6/dsol/source-repository.html
> [5] http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsol/files/dsol/dsol-1.6/
> [6] http://sourceforge.net/projects/dsol/files/dsol/dsol-2.1.0/
>
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