[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Debian Science / pkg-scicomp [was: Re: Paraview status]

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le vendredi 09 octobre 2009 à 14:01 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:47:03PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> We have a historical split between
> 
>     Debian Scientific Computing Team <pkg-scicomp-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> 
> (in CC - please speak up somebody if I'm wrong with my statement below)
> and
> 
>     Debian Science Team <debian-science-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
>
> which is IMHO a very bad and confusing (see above) thing.  My personal
> opinion about this is that pkg-scicomp is not as active as it was before
> and I would really love if we would be able to consolidate things
> according to the Debian Science Policy[1].
To be more precise, the pkg-scicomp started way before the debian-science packaging team. We started Debian Science
because many scientific packages don't belong to pkg-scicomp.

About the future, I have been in touch with Christophe (leader of
pkg-scicomp) and Manuel about merging both projects. I don't want to
talk for them but they both agree on this on the principle. 

        The reasons are various:
        * many people are involved in both projects
        * debian-science has a scope which integrates pkg-scicomp
        * it is not obvious for new people which project contact to
        submit a
        package
        * it would avoid some duplicate work on administrative tasks
        
        Sylvestre