On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:04 AM, Drew Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > dolfin is the front-end of the FENiCS system, and I think the fenics > package is now deprecated. Johannes, did you intend to update the > fenics Debian metapackage, or should we remove it from the Debian > archive?
I have already updated the fenics meta package, but was waiting for dolfin to be available in unstable before uploading. Now that dolfin has been uploaded (thanks Drew!), I will go ahead and upload the fenics meta package. >We could handle it in the dolfin source package to save > maintenance efforts if you want to keep it. I prefer to keep it as it is if that is okay. Johannes > Whether we want the fenics package removed or not, I guess there's no > need to have the two entries in the task list for fenics/dolfin. Once > we're decided I can log in to the tasks server to make the edits to > keep one entry. > > Drew > > On Wed, 2017-01-04 at 15:50 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: >> Hi, >> >> as in every release cycle I'm trying to verify that every package >> maintained in Debian Science team is properly categorised in our >> Blends >> tasks. If a package is just a predependency for some other >> scientific >> software I can add it to a blacklist of packages that should not show >> up in the Debian Science metapackages explicitly. I have uploaded >> the >> list of not yet categorised (not yet blacklisted) source packages to >> >> http://blends.debian.net/tmp/debian-science.txt >> >> The list also contains the latest uploader - so simply seek for your >> name - everybody in CC is mentioned at least once in the list and >> should >> definitely have a look. If other readers here feel competent to >> classify a package for one or more (!) tasks in our task list >> >> https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/ >> >> evary suggestion is welcome. >> >> To add a binary (!) package to a task you can simply >> >> debcheckout -u your_alioth_login debian-science >> cd debian-science/tasks >> >> and edit the task in question. Members of the Debian Pure Blends >> team >> as well as any DD (ACLs are set but I have heard this does not work >> reliably) have commit permissions. I'm also fine if you debcheckout >> anonymously and send me `git format-patch` formated changes or just >> answer here to this mail. >> >> If you are not sure whether a package belongs to a task or not feel >> free to discuss this here. >> >> Kind regards and thanks for your cooperation >> >> Andreas. >>
