> * Package name : cernlib > Version : 2006 > Upstream Author : CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics > * URL : http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/* License : > GPL-2+ > Programming Lang: Fortran, C > Description : CERNLIB data analysis suite
> CERNLIB is a suite of data analysis tools and libraries created for > use in physics experiments, but also with applications to other fields > such as the biological sciences. This package just got removed from Debian. In the bug log for it, which you can read at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508413 you can read that --8<------------------------schnipp------------------------->8--- Its upstream is dead and it is questionable whether it will even be possible to keep it operational or even compilable as the build tools and infrastructure of Debian continue to evolve. --8<------------------------schnapp------------------------->8--- and then it was orphaned for a LONG time. And it links to http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2008/09/msg00028.html which from a quick glance does not look like its maintainable code. That is, when you want to maintain this package, have you considered this? Are you prepared to take over the full maintenance of it? If you just want to stick it into Debian as it is/was, so it becomes bitrot here, that wouldnt be a good thing. If you DO want to maintain it fully, and want to address the problems it seems to have, fine. -- bye, Joerg Ubuntu: An ancient african word meaning "I can't configure Debian" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqphhrxn....@delenn.ganneff.de
