Dear Andreas, I worked a little bit on the tasks but I don't have the permission to write on the svn server Can't create directory '/svn/blends/db/transactions/2353-1.txn': Permission denied
Attached you will find the patch. Best regards On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for quoting myself, but may be the previously choosen subject > might have hidden the problem a bit and after some investigation into > Debian Science tasks files I came to the conclusion that they are not > properly maintained. :-( > > Just from watching the PTS mails what packages were updated and what > were moved to testing I found a bunch of packages which are not > registered in the tasks files. If we gain for some completion in > presenting scientific software we simply fail to do so. > > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 09:12:01PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > Do you know if the wiki will be updated to present ghkl in the right > > > tasks ? > > > > The wiki is manually edited and I really hope it will NOT be updated. > > Why should it? We should really stop manually editing those Wiki pages > > because in contrary what people keep on telling you about Wikis: It just > > is outdated. The tasks pages of the Blends web sentinel[1] will be > > updated once a day and they contain all needed information about the > > packages and are contain really the latest information. > > This statement is only true if we work together in registering packages > in the tasks pages. To make it more clear what this means I would like > to explain in short the phases of getting a package into Debian and how > this is reflected in the blends stuff. > > 1. WNPP > The best way to do would be to register the prospective package > just now. There are examples in the tasks files and it is also > explained in the docs[2]. > An example which shows the effect of registering a prospective > package can be sen for instance in the case of avl[3] > Please note: The Long description has to be specified in the > field "Pkg-Description" (NOT Description - see the bug in the > subject of this mail). > My personal policy is: I'm registering WNPPs for any package which > is relevant for Debian Med, but my time does not allow to do the > same for Debian Science. I sometimes just add the package and > WNPP bug number to make sure the package will be there once it > is uploaded (but it does not show up on the tasks pages by only > specifying WNPP bug number) > > 2. Upload to new > Once a package is in the new queue there is no extra information > needed any more, because the new queue is parsed for packages > mentioned in the tasks file. This can be seen after the next > cron run in the example of libmadlib-dev[4] > > 3. Accepted by ftpmaster and upload to unstable > At least at this point the package should be registered in the > according tasks file and IMHO the easiest way would be if the > maintainer would care for this. He just knows which task fits > best and he watches the package most closely. > > 4. Package moves to testing > Once a package is in testing it is registered as Recommended > package (instead of only Suggested) after releasing the next > version of Debian Science metapackages > > 5. Stable release > Everybody who installs a science metapackage will learn about > the registered packages (and might fail to realise those who are > not registered). > > We are currently close to a stable release and probably have only one > chance to fix the tasks files to be released in Squeeze. So maintainers > of scientific packages please do your homework NOW. If you have no idea > how to edit the tasks files (any DD has commit permissions to SVN) feel > free to send me a patch or just write an e-mail to the list what you > think should be changed in the tasks files. > > This is also a simple task for general readers of this mailing list who > are not actually packaging software: Just browse the tasks pages[1] and > watch out what packages might be missing. > > Note: I CAN NOT do this on my own and probably nobody can because I'm > just lacking the knowledge to properly categorise those packages nor > do I know all the packages inside Debian. > > So please provide some input - it is needed right now. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > > [1] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/ > [2] > http://blends.alioth.debian.org/blends/ch-sentinel.en.html#s-packageslist > [3] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/engineering#avl > [4] > http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/mathematics-dev#libmadlib-dev > (not available at the time of writing) > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- Debian Developer (Scientific applications) Prof. at Univ. Grenoble in Applied Math.
Index: meteorology-dev =================================================================== --- meteorology-dev (revision 2353) +++ meteorology-dev (working copy) @@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ Responsible: Alastair McKinstry <[email protected]> Why: EOS extensions to the HDF library, for Earth Observation datatypes. Pkg-Description: Extension to HDF4 to support Earth Observing System datatypes - HDF-EOS is a software library that is an extension of National Center - for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) HDF. The library supports the + HDF-EOS is a software library that is an extension of National Center + for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) HDF. The library supports the construction of new data structures: Grid, Point and Swath. . This version is built against the HDF4 @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Why: Many Meteorology codes use ksh as their scripting shells. Suggests: pkg-config -Why: Simplifies the scripting of builds. +Why: Simplifies the scripting of builds. Depends: liboasis3-dev @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Why: widely used in climate models. Pkg-Description: Library for the programatic handling of units of physical quantities The UDUNITS package supports units of physical quantities (e.g., meters, seconds). - Specifically, it supports conversion between string and binary representations + Specifically, it supports conversion between string and binary representations of units, arithmetic manipulation of units, and conversion of numeric values between compatible units. @@ -77,7 +77,12 @@ Responsible: Youhei SASAKI <[email protected]> Pkg-Description: The netCDF Client Library is an alternative implementation of Unidata's netCDF 3.6 API. The netCDF Client Library is an alternative implementation of Unidata's netCDF 3.6 API. - Our version adds the capability to dereference OPeNDAP URLs. You can substitute our version - of the library when linking your application and then simply pass an OPeNDAP URL + Our version adds the capability to dereference OPeNDAP URLs. You can substitute our version + of the library when linking your application and then simply pass an OPeNDAP URL in where you would normally use a file name. +Depends: python-openturns, libopenturns-dev, openturns-wrapper +Why: Uncertainty quantification in numerical simulation + +Suggests: liblife-dev +Why: Partial differential equations library, FEA, CFD Index: physics =================================================================== --- physics (revision 2353) +++ physics (working copy) @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Depends: octaviz Depends: science-numericalcomputation -Why: numerical programming environments similar to Matlab/IDL +Why: numerical programming environments similar to Matlab/IDL Depends: opencascade-tools @@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ Depends: ghkl +Suggests: life-apps, liblife-dev +Why: Partial differential equation library, FEA, CFD + Depends: blzpack Homepage: http://crd.lbl.gov/~osni/#Software WNPP: 435394 @@ -170,16 +173,16 @@ Depends: quantumespresso Homepage: http://www.quantum-espresso.org/ -License: GPL -Pkg-Description: Electronic structure calculations +License: GPL +Pkg-Description: Electronic structure calculations Integrated suite of computer codes for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at the nanoscale. It is based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials (both norm-conserving and ultrasoft). Depends: pwscf Homepage: http://www.pwscf.org/ -License: GPL -Pkg-Description: Electronic structure calculations +License: GPL +Pkg-Description: Electronic structure calculations Computer code for electronic-structure calculations within Density-Functional Theory and Density-Functional Perturbation Theory, using pseudopotentials and a plane-wave basis set. @@ -187,7 +190,7 @@ Depends: cp2k Homepage: http://cp2k.berlios.de/ License: GPL -WNPP: 518984 +WNPP: 518984 Pkg-Description: CP2K is a program to perform atomistic and molecular simulations of solid state, liquid, molecular and biological systems. It provides a general framework for different methods such as @@ -198,7 +201,7 @@ Homepage: http://pymca.sourceforge.net/ License: GPL-2+ WNPP: 514903 -Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/?p=debian-science/packages/pymca.git +Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/?p=debian-science/packages/pymca.git Responsible: Teemu Ikonen <[email protected]> Pkg-Description: Python toolkit and application for X-ray fluorescence analysis PyMCA is an application and Python toolkit for analysis of X-ray Index: statistics =================================================================== --- statistics (revision 2353) +++ statistics (working copy) @@ -64,3 +64,6 @@ Suggests: science-mathematics + +Depends: python-openturns +Why: Uncertainty quantification in numerical simulation Index: mathematics =================================================================== --- mathematics (revision 2353) +++ mathematics (working copy) @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Depends: mathomatic -Depends: scilab, scilab-sivp, scilab-scimax, scilab-swt, scilab-ann, +Depends: scilab, scilab-sivp, scilab-scimax, scilab-swt, scilab-ann, scilab-plotlib Depends: regina-normal, snappea @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Bliss is a backtracking algorithm based on individualization and refinement for labeling a graph. Data structures, subroutines, and pruning heuristics especially for fast handling of large and sparse - graphs are provided. This package provides the command line tool + graphs are provided. This package provides the command line tool bliss; a C++ and C API is also available. . There is also a libbliss-dev which changes the last line of the long @@ -102,3 +102,8 @@ won't be any rdepends in debian. I could be convinced otherwise of course. +Depends: life-apps +Why: Partial differential equation library, FEA, CFD + +Depends: python-openturns +Why: Uncertainty quantification in numerical simulation Index: meteorology =================================================================== --- meteorology (revision 2353) +++ meteorology (working copy) @@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ License: BSD Responsible: Alastair McKinstry <[email protected]> Pkg-Description: Extension to HDF4 to support Earth Observing System datatypes - HDF-EOS is a software library that is an extension of National Center - for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) HDF. The library supports the + HDF-EOS is a software library that is an extension of National Center + for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) HDF. The library supports the construction of new data structures: Grid, Point and Swath. Depends: hdf-eos5 @@ -82,9 +82,12 @@ customizable. Suggests: gnudatalanguage, r-base -Why: Used for data manipiulation +Why: Used for data manipiulation Suggests: octave-octcdf -Why: Used for data manipiulation +Why: Used for data manipiulation Suggests: gerris + +Suggests: python-openturns +Why: Uncertainty quantification in numerical simulation Index: engineering-dev =================================================================== --- engineering-dev (revision 2353) +++ engineering-dev (working copy) @@ -31,5 +31,9 @@ Depends: libdeal.ii-dev Depends: liblife-dev +Why: Partial differential equations library, FEA, CFD Depends: libluminate-dev + +Depends: libmadlib-dev +Why: Mesh adaptation Index: electronics =================================================================== --- electronics (revision 2353) +++ electronics (working copy) @@ -67,3 +67,5 @@ * Symbolic layout: Alliance, COMPASS * Physical layout: CIF (output-only) and GDSII (output-only) +Suggests: liblife-dev +Why: Partial differential equations library, FEA, CFD Index: mathematics-dev =================================================================== --- mathematics-dev (revision 2353) +++ mathematics-dev (working copy) @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Depends: libnewmat10-dev Depends: libmadlib-dev +Why: Mesh adaptation Depends: dolfin-dev @@ -70,3 +71,9 @@ Depends: petsc-dev, libtrilinos-dev Suggests: libqrupdate-dev + +Depends: liblife-dev +Why: Partial differential equations library, FEA, CFD + +Suggests: python-openturns, libopenturns-dev, openturns-wrapper +Why: Uncertainty quantification in numerical simulation
