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

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Le lundi 19 octobre 2009 à 14:24 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit :
> 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.
If the current maintainers agree and people in the team are going to
help, yes, it would make sense...

Sylvestre