Hi, On 2021-10-29 20:31, Torrance, Douglas wrote: > During the Debian Science BoF at this year's DebConf, there was some > discussion of creating a team devoted to packaging mathematical software.
I agree with Anton here. I do not see how further fragmentation of debian-science could benefit it. I missed the BoF, but maybe there are notes reflecting this decision? Separate team and separate mailing list will have less members than debian-science. Furthermore, from my experience one does not need domain knowledge to successfully package and maintain packages in Debian. What makes more sense to me, is organizing packages into teams based on programming languages and build/test systems, as such teams indeed possess specific knowledge. I think most of the mails asking for help in debian-med concern language and build system problems, not domain-specific issues. Thus I am very comfortable keeping my math packages in per-language teams knowing that these teams will take good care of them if needed. I am worried reading about R packages being moved from debian-r to new debian-math. I am afraid doing so might negatively impact their quality. Best, Andrius
