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Author Bug#325306: ITP: root -- An object oriented data analysis framework
Christian Holm Christensen

2006-02-26, 9:50 am

Followup-For: Bug #325306
Package: wnpp
Owner: Christian Holm Christensen <cholm@nbi.dk>

I intent to package this software for Debian.

The license of ROOT has recently been changed from a DFSG non-free
license, to the GNU LGPL.

An apt-get repository exists at

deb http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable root
deb-src http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable root

The packages have been built on i386, powerpc, and amd64. A bit of
rudimentary tests have been done on ppc64 and sparc, but with no
success. The packages have previously been built on hurd-i386,
but that's a long time ago.

The packages could really do with some independent testing, especially
on more exotic platforms, like arm, ia64, and so on.

A lot of discussion about these packages is talking place at
the debian-science mailing list. There's also a Wiki page at
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScienceROOT. On
http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/ there's also a bit.

ROOT has a fairly large user base in High Energy Physics, which however
mostly use Red Hat, Fedora, or SL. None of these distributions ship
ROOT though.

The Debian packages are developed concurently with the RPM packages. In
fact, the same data is used by both packaging systems to make the DEB's
and RPM's. Hence, there's very little difference between the Debian
packages and the RPM's.

Please note, I'm not on debian-devel (as I'm not a maintainer - yet :-),
so please Cc replies to me. Thanks.

Yours,

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martin f krafft

2006-02-26, 9:50 am

also sprach Christian Holm Christensen <cholm@nbi.dk> [2006.02.23.1721 +0100]:
>
> What happened to Zaratustra?


He's sitting up on the pole still.

>
> For the meta-package, yes, but does it really matter? Also,
> although the main development takes place at CERN, it would be
> unfair to the large number of contributors from all over the world
> to call it `cern-root'.


Okay. I just wanted the issue thought over. I have no objections
really.

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