Hi Thibaut, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:58:26AM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > I have sent these two RFS a little bit more than two months ago. I have > put a lot of effort into them (for instance I've worked with upstream to > fix bugs in yp-svipc and port it to Python 3) and I'd be sorry if they > missed Wheezy for lack of a sponsor.
I'm afraid that these packages will not make it any more into Wheezy because the new queue will not be processed until the Freeze date - at least this is the information I have. But finally you did not really wasted your time - Debian development is not really a discrete step from release to release but a continuous flow. I might try to give some suggestions how teamwork and sponsorship might be enhanced to reduce the level of frustration of committers like you but this is for another mail. > yp-svipc: System V InterProcess Communication > ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/668841 > RFS: http://bugs.debian.org/669209 > http://mentors.debian.net/package/yp-svipc > > This package builds plug-ins for the Python and Yorick interpreter to > expose the SysV IPC to interpreted code. This permits building parallel > codes and sharing memory segments between processes. > > The Yorick plug-in can be used by [YAO], an adaptive optics simulator, > to make faster computations thanks to parallelisation. The combination > of the two plug-ins allows building mixed Python/Yorick applications. > [YAO] http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/yorick-yao I uploaded this package to the new queue because I think it is OK. The only issue I have that as always I wonder why the package is not yet mentioned in the astronomy(-dev ??) task of Debian Science. Could you please suggest reasonable task(s) for the binary packages of this source package? > gyoto: General relativistic geodesic integration and ray-tracing > ITP: http://bugs.debian.org/640809 > RFS: http://bugs.debian.org/669016 > http://mentors.debian.net/package/gyoto > > Gyoto allows computing trajectories (e.g. of stars) and ray-tracing > images in the vicinity of compact objects such as black holes. It is > usable as a C++ library, a stand-alone utility executable, and a Yorick > plug-in. I added to the package a debian/upstream file featuring citation information when I have seen flashing a hint about a publication when watching at the build log. As a general note: Please do upstream and your users a favour and add citation information if there are scientific publications about packages available. It really helps strengthening Debian inside the scientific community. Moreover I do see some room for enhancement for this package. I wonder whether you have some reason to stick to debhelper 7 for this package (may be some backporting plan might rectify this). However, even dh 7 knows short debhelper notation which makes team maintenance way more easy. Would you consider changing this? I would not insist on this as a condition for sponsering but I'd really recommend it. What I really like you to do is to remove the dh-make template (except if Joey Hess and Craig Small did really worked on this very package ;-).) I decided to add gyoto to the astronomy task - please confirm that this is all what should be added or whether possibly libgyoto0-dev would be a good thing for astronomy-dev (or whatever) > I'd be really, really grateful if someone from the community would have > a look. Hope this helps you a bit while I'm on Debian Science meeting in Grenoble. :-) Kind regards Andreas. -- 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]
