[Pkg-octave-commit] [SCM] Debian packaging for dynare branch, master, updated. 67480e88c0de1c23c53fe26f699fb9594c377705

Wed Oct 5 17:46:10 UTC 2011

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 6036892056fb3ed490c039ac6e91f6148f7ff898
Author: Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr>
Date:   Wed Oct 5 17:39:22 2011 +0200

    debian/control: rewrite packages description

diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 2438fa5..39381e8 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -23,16 +23,32 @@ Architecture: any
 Depends: octave3.2 (>= 3.2.2), dynare-common, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Suggests: dynare-doc
 Recommends: octave3.2-headers (>= 3.2.2)
-Description: suite for non-linear models with forward looking variables
- Dynare is a pre-preprocessor and a collection of GNU Octave and
- MATLAB routines which can solve, simulate and estimate non-linear
- models with forward looking variables.
+Description: platform for handling a wide class of economic models
+ Dynare is a software platform for handling a wide class of economic models, in
+ particular dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) and overlapping
+ generations (OLG) models. The models solved by Dynare include those relying on
+ the rational expectations hypothesis, wherein agents form their expectations
+ about the future in a way consistent with the model. But Dynare is also able
+ to handle models where expectations are formed differently: on one extreme,
+ models where agents perfectly anticipate the future; on the other extreme,
+ models where agents have limited rationality or imperfect knowledge of the
+ state of the economy and, hence, form their expectations through a learning
+ process. In terms of types of agents, models solved by Dynare can incorporate
+ consumers, productive firms, governments, monetary authorities, investors and
+ financial intermediaries. Some degree of heterogeneity can be achieved by
+ including several distinct classes of agents in each of the aforementioned
+ agent categories.
  .
- In particular, in the field of computational economics, it is used
- for solving and estimating dynamic stochastic general equilibrium
- (DSGE) models.
+ Dynare offers a user-friendly and intuitive way of describing these models. It
+ is able to perform simulations of the model given a calibration of the model
+ parameters and is also able to estimate these parameters given a dataset. In
+ practice, the user will write a text file containing the list of model
+ variables, the dynamic equations linking these variables together, the
+ computing tasks to be performed and the desired graphical or numerical
+ outputs.
  .
- This package provides a full installation of Dynare for GNU Octave.
+ This package provides a full installation of Dynare, to be run on top of GNU
+ Octave.
  .
  It contains:
   * the binary preprocessor
@@ -42,48 +58,93 @@ Description: suite for non-linear models with forward looking variables
 Package: dynare-common
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}
-Description: platform independent files for Dynare
- Dynare is a pre-preprocessor and a collection of GNU Octave and
- MATLAB routines which can solve, simulate and estimate non-linear
- models with forward looking variables.
+Description: platform for handling a wide class of economic models
+ Dynare is a software platform for handling a wide class of economic models, in
+ particular dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) and overlapping
+ generations (OLG) models. The models solved by Dynare include those relying on
+ the rational expectations hypothesis, wherein agents form their expectations
+ about the future in a way consistent with the model. But Dynare is also able
+ to handle models where expectations are formed differently: on one extreme,
+ models where agents perfectly anticipate the future; on the other extreme,
+ models where agents have limited rationality or imperfect knowledge of the
+ state of the economy and, hence, form their expectations through a learning
+ process. In terms of types of agents, models solved by Dynare can incorporate
+ consumers, productive firms, governments, monetary authorities, investors and
+ financial intermediaries. Some degree of heterogeneity can be achieved by
+ including several distinct classes of agents in each of the aforementioned
+ agent categories.
  .
- In particular, in the field of computational economics, it is used
- for solving and estimating dynamic stochastic general equilibrium
- (DSGE) models.
+ Dynare offers a user-friendly and intuitive way of describing these models. It
+ is able to perform simulations of the model given a calibration of the model
+ parameters and is also able to estimate these parameters given a dataset. In
+ practice, the user will write a text file containing the list of model
+ variables, the dynamic equations linking these variables together, the
+ computing tasks to be performed and the desired graphical or numerical
+ outputs.
  .
- This package contains the various M-files which can be run under
- both GNU Octave and MATLAB.
+ This package contains the various M-files which can be run under both GNU
+ Octave and MATLAB.
 
 Package: dynare-doc
 Architecture: all
 Section: doc
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}
 Description: documentation for Dynare
- Dynare is a pre-preprocessor and a collection of GNU Octave and
- MATLAB routines which can solve, simulate and estimate non-linear
- models with forward looking variables.
+ Dynare is a software platform for handling a wide class of economic models, in
+ particular dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) and overlapping
+ generations (OLG) models. The models solved by Dynare include those relying on
+ the rational expectations hypothesis, wherein agents form their expectations
+ about the future in a way consistent with the model. But Dynare is also able
+ to handle models where expectations are formed differently: on one extreme,
+ models where agents perfectly anticipate the future; on the other extreme,
+ models where agents have limited rationality or imperfect knowledge of the
+ state of the economy and, hence, form their expectations through a learning
+ process. In terms of types of agents, models solved by Dynare can incorporate
+ consumers, productive firms, governments, monetary authorities, investors and
+ financial intermediaries. Some degree of heterogeneity can be achieved by
+ including several distinct classes of agents in each of the aforementioned
+ agent categories.
  .
- In particular, in the field of computational economics, it is used
- for solving and estimating dynamic stochastic general equilibrium
- (DSGE) models.
+ Dynare offers a user-friendly and intuitive way of describing these models. It
+ is able to perform simulations of the model given a calibration of the model
+ parameters and is also able to estimate these parameters given a dataset. In
+ practice, the user will write a text file containing the list of model
+ variables, the dynamic equations linking these variables together, the
+ computing tasks to be performed and the desired graphical or numerical
+ outputs.
  .
- This package contains full Dynare documentation, including a user
- guide and the reference manual.
+ This package contains full Dynare documentation, including a user guide and
+ the reference manual.
 
 Package: dynare-matlab
 Architecture: all
 Section: contrib/math
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}, dynare, libboost-graph-dev (>= 1.36),
  gfortran, matlab-support
-Description: MEX files for MATLAB users of Dynare
- Dynare is a pre-preprocessor and a collection of GNU Octave and
- MATLAB routines which can solve, simulate and estimate non-linear
- models with forward looking variables.
+Description: MATLAB support for Dynare
+ Dynare is a software platform for handling a wide class of economic models, in
+ particular dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) and overlapping
+ generations (OLG) models. The models solved by Dynare include those relying on
+ the rational expectations hypothesis, wherein agents form their expectations
+ about the future in a way consistent with the model. But Dynare is also able
+ to handle models where expectations are formed differently: on one extreme,
+ models where agents perfectly anticipate the future; on the other extreme,
+ models where agents have limited rationality or imperfect knowledge of the
+ state of the economy and, hence, form their expectations through a learning
+ process. In terms of types of agents, models solved by Dynare can incorporate
+ consumers, productive firms, governments, monetary authorities, investors and
+ financial intermediaries. Some degree of heterogeneity can be achieved by
+ including several distinct classes of agents in each of the aforementioned
+ agent categories.
  .
- In particular, in the field of computational economics, it is used
- for solving and estimating dynamic stochastic general equilibrium
- (DSGE) models.
+ Dynare offers a user-friendly and intuitive way of describing these models. It
+ is able to perform simulations of the model given a calibration of the model
+ parameters and is also able to estimate these parameters given a dataset. In
+ practice, the user will write a text file containing the list of model
+ variables, the dynamic equations linking these variables together, the
+ computing tasks to be performed and the desired graphical or numerical
+ outputs.
  .
  This package is only useful to users having MATLAB installed on their
- machine. It contains the source of the MEX files and will recompile
- them using the existing MATLAB installation.
+ machine. It contains the source of the MEX files and will recompile them using
+ the existing MATLAB installation.

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Debian packaging for dynare

