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 > > <[email protected]> > > > > (in CC - please speak up somebody if I'm wrong with my statement below) > > and > > > > Debian Science Team <[email protected]> > > > > 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
