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10 :ref:`FreeSurfer <pkg_freesurfer>` is a set of tools for analysis and
11 visualization of structural and functional brain imaging data. It contains a
12 fully automatic structural stream for processing cross sectional and
13 longitudinal data. Packaging of FreeSurfer for Debian is a part of our
14 general efforts to provide comprehensive neuro-imaging research support.
19 The majority of FreeSurfer 5.1.0 has been released under seems to be
20 |DFSG|-compliant |FOSS| license terms on 24 May 2011. We have started working
21 on packaging. Following has been done
23 * modularization of the FreeSurfer distribution into code and data components
25 * FreeSurfer 5.1.0 |FOSS| code made available from our `FreeSurfer GitHub
26 <https://github.com/neurodebian/freesurfer>`_ repository
28 * :file:`debian/patches` contains a series of patches primarily to
30 - rely on system-provided libraries where applicable
31 - in general replace static inclusion with dynamic linking thus
32 greatly decreasing size of distributed binaries and making deployment more modular
34 .. todo:: FreeSurfer packaging
36 * Collect and provide all required libraries to link against
37 * Decide on further separation in to binary packages
38 * Decide on how to ship "freesurfer-cuda" (depends on non-free materials,
39 so cannot be build by the source in Debian `main` component)
40 * Investigate possibility to deprecate/replace functionality dependent on
41 antique libraries which might have been or soon will be removed from
48 * `Debian ITP bug report <http://bugs.debian.org/628183>`_ with additional
49 information on the packaging progress.
50 * `FreeSurfer GitHub`_ with the full source code and the Debian packaging
51 * http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/NextGenCode
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