Hi Adam, I'll write a more detailed reply about vis. later. I've packaged Metis and received permission from its author for distribution in debian.
I request for sponsorship of metis packages and forthcoming hmetis and parmetis packages. You may find the initial metis packages at http://borg.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~exa/debian/ Please inspect them, and I'll fix possible errors on your report. FYI, I'm quoting the sponsorship howto from http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/sponsor/ Especially the last item is important for me, I'd be very glad if you could write a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] about my work since I've been waiting for DAM approval. Sponsorship HOWTO ----------------- * download the package produced by the future developer * completely check the package and explain all the mistakes to the future developer * let him provide a corrected version * check it again and upload the package to Incoming if it's ok. For recompiling, assuming you are "Happy Sponsor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>", use dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -m'Happy Sponsor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'. Then, you can simply dupload. * speak a bit with the future developer about what he wants to do for Debian and about his motivation. * send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] telling them that the candidate successfully packaged XX (which is in Incoming) and that he also wants to do YY for Debian (if he told you something of course !). -- Eray Ozkural (exa) Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
