* Package name    : freesurfer
  Version         : 5.1.0
  Upstream Author : The General Hospital Corporation (Boston, MA) "MGH"
* URL             : http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/
* License         : BSD-style FreeSurfer Software License Agreement v1.0
  Programming Lang: C/C++/Python/Perl/...
  Description     : analysis and visualization of functional brain imaging data

 FreeSurfer is a set of tools for analysis and visualization of
 structural and functional brain imaging data. It contains a fully
 automatic structural stream for processing cross sectional and
 longitudinal data.
 .
 FreeSurfer provides many anatomical analysis tools, including:
 representation of the cortical surface between white and gray matter,
 representation of the pial surface, segmentation of white matter from
 the rest of the brain, skull stripping, B1 bias field correction,
 nonlinear registration of the cortical surface of an individual with
 an sterotaxic atlas, labeling of regions of the cortical surface,
 statistical analysis of group morphometry differences, and labeling of
 subcortical brain structures, etc.

Is there a Debian package of freesurfer already?

May I help to upload it ot the Debian archive?

Mark Hymers (mhy) took the lead on this effort. I haven't heard back
from him regarding the status recently. Last time he mentioned that he
has some prototype package.

Michael

retitle 628183 RFP: freesurfer -- analysis and visualization of functional brain imaging data
noowner 628183
tag 628183 - pending
thanks

Hi,

This is an automatic email to change the status of freesurfer back from ITP
(Intent to Package) to RFP (Request for Package), because this bug hasn't seen
any activity during the last 12 months.

If you are still interested in adopting freesurfer, please send a mail to
<control@bugs.debian.org> with:

 retitle 628183 ITP: freesurfer -- analysis and visualization of functional brain imaging data
 owner 628183 !
 thanks

However, it is not recommended to keep ITP for a long time without acting on
the package, as it might cause other prospective maintainers to refrain from
packaging that software. It is also a good idea to document your progress on
this ITP from time to time, by mailing <628183@bugs.debian.org>.

Thank you for your interest in Debian,

Hi,

just to clean up Debian Med tasks:  Is the work that was started
somewhere in VCS?

Do you see any sense to keep freesurfer on the Debian Med imaging
todo list?

Kind regards

      Andreas.

it did... later I took that repo from public view since it had some
proprietary bits committed in a history

so maybe just wipe out vcs field

I see why not ;)

Hi Yaroslav,

There is no vcs field specified.  All VCS metadata is read and the name
for a binary package freesurfer is seeked - but not found any more.
So no entry for this package is created and an error message in the log

http://blends.debian.org/_logs/debian-med.log

From time to time I'm hunting the errors in the log above and freesurfer
is the only one I can not explain myself.  Is there any chance that the
VCS might come back in the not to distant future ... at least the
debian/ dir?

Kind regards

      Andreas.

done!

For the record, if comes useful again, here is the protocol

  rsync -a freesurfer/ freesurfer-pkg2
  cd freesurfer-pkg2
  git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat --index-filter 'git ls-files  -s | awk "{print $4}" | grep -v debian | xargs git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch' HEAD
  git tag -d upstream/5.1.0 upstream/5.1.0+cvs20110526 upstream/5.1.0+cvs20111031
  git reflog expire --expire=now --all
  git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" refs/original/ | xargs -n 1 git update-ref -d
  git remote rm york
  git remote rm gh
  git remote rm alioth
  git gc --prune=now

and only now spotted that we have now two separate trees there -- one
ours and then one from Mark... oh well -- better two than none ;)

Cheers,

Hi! Has there been any change wrt this ITP? Thanks!