Hi Drew, thanks a lot for your research on this topic. For me all you wrote might motivate me to file a request for removal bug if nobody might step up and gives good reasons to keep it.
Kind regards Andreas. Am Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 06:21:59PM +0100 schrieb Drew Parsons: > 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 > -- https://fam-tille.de
