Packaging FreeSurfer
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. Packaging of FreeSurfer for Debian is a part of our
general efforts to provide comprehensive neuro-imaging research support.
Status
The majority of FreeSurfer 5.1.0 has been released under seems to be
DFSG-compliant FOSS license terms on 24 May 2011. We have started working
on packaging. Following has been done
- modularization of the FreeSurfer distribution into code and data components
- FreeSurfer 5.1.0 FOSS code made available from our FreeSurfer GitHub repository
debian/patches contains a series of patches primarily to
- rely on system-provided libraries where applicable
- in general replace static inclusion with dynamic linking thus
greatly decreasing size of distributed binaries and making deployment more modular
Todo
FreeSurfer packaging
- Collect and provide all required libraries to link against
- Decide on further separation in to binary packages
- Decide on how to ship “freesurfer-cuda” (depends on non-free materials,
so cannot be build by the source in Debian main component)
- Investigate possibility to deprecate/replace functionality dependent on
antique libraries which might have been or soon will be removed from
Debian (e.g. xview)
