[Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

[Chris Walker]

Manuel Prinz <debian at pinguinkiste.de> writes:

> Am Dienstag, den 08.07.2008, 16:29 +0200 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru:
> > Ondrej Certikwrote:
> > > is that it, or are there some more packages?
> > > 
> > More package are coming like Worldwind, Scilab, libmatio (for me) and
> > other are managed under the git and svn vcs...
> 
> Also, some are under the Debian Science hood but not uploaded for just a
> maintainer change. So the list will grow once these are uploaded.
> 
> > > I am asking to find out where is the best place to maintain the
> > > atlas3.8 packages. It seems to me the Debian Scientific Computation
> > > Team is more suited for that, given
> > > that it already maintains many similar packages.
> > I agree with you. Blas/Lapack & Atlas are core packages of numerical
> > computing software and should be maintained actively by people coming
> > from this "world".
> 
> Yes, I think maintaining them in Sci-Comp is appropriate.

Inded. 

> 
> In the long run I'd really love to see the clans unite and grew into one
> Debian Science team with specialized "subgroups". But there is much more
> to do first and I doubt that everyone is with me in this respect. So
> we'll see where all this goes.


http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScientificComputingTeam says "The
aim of Debian Scientific Computing Team is to provide home for all
scientific packages in Debian. " and doesn't mention
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience (and vice versa). 

Perhaps the two could link to each other. If suitable text can be
agreed, I'll volunteer to commit it to the wiki if I'm not beaten to it. 

Chris