On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@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-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> >> >> (in CC - please speak up somebody if I'm wrong with my statement below) >> and >> >> Debian Science Team <debian-science-maintain...@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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
