On 2025-01-08 17:23, Andreas Tille wrote:
Hi,
there was a hint about Debian Science maintained packages that are not
featuring Salsa Vcs fields (so not yet uploaded after Salsa
migration)[1] I had a look and found:
So I had a random pick quadrule: It has seen two uploads in 2013, the
homepage is gone, I failed seeking for a new homepage or any other
place
someone might find the source. Does anybody think we need this leaf
package or is it a candidate for removal?
The (upstream) author John Burkardt was still publishing relatively
recently
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11075-019-00751-5
though oddly Google is ignorant of that paper
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=7_8Uxs0AAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
His source repository is still live
https://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/
It's just that quadrule is not there, at least not by that name.
Perhaps it's one of the many examples on his site.
The quadrule source code actually cites the Debian maintainer (not
developer) Mike Neish as author, not John Burkardt.
It looks like it was actually written by Mike, inspired by John's work
and examples.
John's site provides dozens and dozens of little examples. I think Mike
has collated them all and placed them into one quadrule.c.
As far as the debian package goes, it could be dropped, unless Mike
wants to move it to salsa and keep maintaining it.
Interested users can look through the examples on John's site, or find
the collation on snapshot.debian.org.
The GSL does have some quadrature rules,
https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/doc/html/integration.html#fixed-point-quadratures
(one of John's samples is a test of the GSL).
There is an attempt to bring it to C++ at
https://github.com/emsr/quadrature
though not developed further for 3 years now.
Drew
