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

[Ondrej Certik]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Andreas Tille <tillea at rki.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>
>> It was me who wrote this wiki, as I thought that the
>> DebianScientificComputingTeam was the only scientific team in Debian.
>>
>> Now that I learned that there are two, I think the purpose of Debian
>> Science team could be to cover sort of everything, as you have said,
>> while
>> DebianScientificComputingTeam could cover high performance computing +
>> visualization?
>
> Kind of that.  As I said I see more than an exclusive packaging team
> in Debian Science: It is about contacting users and developers providing
> a technical basis for not only packages but _a_ _set_ _of_ _packages_,
> just working as a Custom Debian Distribution (and no, before this stupid
> name couses another misunderstanding: a Custom Debian Distribution is
> _defined_ as beeing completely internal in Debian - it's just the name
> that sounds confusing ...) [1]

Great -- if it's internal to Debian, then all is fine. When I read
that, I said -- hell no, I don't want another derivative. :)
But you clarified that immediatelly.

>
> Thanks for your work on the Wiki anyway

Chris Walker has fixed our wiki in the meantime -- thanks a lot!
Now it looks much better.

> [1] http://people.debian.org/~tille/cdd/

On the page:

http://people.debian.org/~tille/cdd/ch-existing.en.html#s-debian-edu

change the link:

http://wiki.debian.net/?DebianEdu

to:

http://wiki.debian.org/?DebianEdu

Andreas --- so the Debian Science CCD just provides the metapackages?
I mean -- all you have to do is to make sure that the user just
installs one metapackage and he gets a fully working system ready to
do whatever he needs in his field? And then you also make sure that
all the packages work nicely together?
Or is there something more that I don't see. :)

Ondrej