On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:11:52PM -0400, Mike.lifeguard wrote:
> Michael Hanke wrote:
> > Regarding the fsl-atlases package. What do you mean by 'gone'? It is still
> > there and part of the karmic-suite on http://neuro.debian.net.
>
> Sorry, "gone" meant that the package is referred to by other packages
> (ie as a recommends for fsl) but there is no installation candidate.
>
> I did get the package from debian, and it works just fine. The problem
> is ubuntu's repositories. (And having atlases fixes the crash I
> mentioned -- I guess it is just a lack of error handling in fslview for
> the case where atlases are missing. The bug I filed is
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486858)
Right. The fsl-atlases package is built by the huge fsldata source
package that contains all data file that are included in the FSL
sources. They are separate since that allows me to have FSL and FSLView
in Debian (and its official mirrors), while the current infrastructure
does not allow to have >1GB packages. Even if FSL is not fully
functional without the data files, having the packages in Debian proper
attracts more attention to the FSL sources, resulting in bugs being
detected (and fixed) by other people than the FSL developers, or myself.
However, for Debian the problem of huge data packages about to be
solved. For those who are interested:
http://ftp-master.debian.org/wiki/projects/data/
not sure which way Ubuntu will go -- if they do something to it at all...
Michael
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