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

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 02:09:28PM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

So what, in the meantime? I would avoid to do too many changes to the
package, at least I would fix RC bugs by NMU for current 3.4 series
and wait for some feedback from Cristophe.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine