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

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org> 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

At the same time would it be possible to move the vtk package under
the debian-science umbrella too ?
It has been *extremely* hard over the last week to communicate in
between Denis Barbier, Dominique Belhachemi, A. Maitland Bottoms,
Steve M. Robbins. VTK is really a central package and a mailing list
would really help here.

Thanks for your attention,
-- 
Mathieu