Debian source package of FSLView
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The FSL sources are a mixture of free and non-free source code as well as
non-free datasets. Additionally it contains 3rd party software as sources
or in binary form. Most of this software is available as proper Debian
packages.

For these reasons and the huge size of the tarball (approx. 1.1 GB) the
original sources were split into three individual source package: two packages
with source -- one free and one non-free each and one pure data package.

The data package was separated as it contains datasets that are very
unlikely to change between major releases or even less frequently. These
dataset are the biggest part of the sources (already more than one GB).

For the exact repackaging and split procedure, please look at the
'repackage-fsl' script in the Debian packaging of the Debian 'fslview' source
package.

This source package provides the DFSG-compliant source code of the FSLView
application.

The Debian packaging introduces some hardcoded paths in the sources. This is
done, because FSL (and FSLView) depends on a certain environment setup. To
reduce the maintainance overhead the Debian maintainer hardcoded certain
paths, because they are invariant on Debian systems and don't need
customization (e.g. paths to Qt3 install directory, qt-assistant, html-docs).

-- Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@gmail.com>, Fri, 26 Apr 2009 20:33:27 +0200
