Hi all, On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 08:30 -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > On 8/24/07, Frederic Lehobey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have gathered this information (and more) into a temptative > > debian-science source package building several science-* packages > > (with cdd-dev machinery).
Very good idea. > > I am unsure if it is ready to be uploaded to unstable. But I would be > > happy to hear your feedback and suggestions on dependencies to have > > (or not) and take them into account. > > > > http://lehobey.net/debian-science Erhm, any particular reason this is not a "real" apt-get repository? I'd suggest using "reprepro" (the one from unstable is really cool). > I have just a few comments. > > 1) Should these metapackages Recommend instead of Depending on the > real ones? I see that is what the education-* metapackages do and > presumably they have some reason for it. I think a "Recommends" would be better than "Depends", since that allows one to install, and keep having installed, the meta-packages even if there are problems with the recommended/dependant packages - which does happen in unstable. ... > 3) science-physics should definitely recommend root-system once that's > out of experimental. I would certainly second that (as I'm the maintainer of that set of packages :-). The ETA for ROOT in unstable is a bit uncertain. What I'd really like to happen, is if someone with more exotic platforms could give it a try - especially the mips, mipsel, hppa, and similar platforms. The source packages of ROOT 5.16/00 (latest production release) can be found at deb-src http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root unstable main contrib or directly from http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/debian-root/pool/main/r/root-system Some other questions/suggestions * I see (though I may have missed it) no mention of GSL - perhaps that should be added to one of `-statistics', `-mathematics', or `-physics'. * Perhaps `-physics' should recommend `-statistics'. * On principle, I think the `-electronics' package should `depend' on `ghdl' (and `freehdl') at the same level as `verilog', if not at a higher level :-) (I really dislike Verilog relative to VHDL - it's like Fortran77 and C++ - once you've done C++, Fortran seems plain silly :-) * `-viewing' should perhaps also depend on `g3data'. * The `-astronomy' package should also depend on what-ever implementation that exists in Debian of `IDL' (Interactive Data Language). For some odd reason, that language seems popular among astrologists - sorry astronomers :-) Yours, -- ___ | Christian Holm Christensen |_| | ------------------------------------------------------------- | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 _| DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 24 61 85 91 _| Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 404 ____| Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm | | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
