Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote: Great -- if it's internal to Debian, then all is fine. When I read that, I said -- hell no, I don't want another derivative. :) I really love people who think "hell no" if they hear about just another derivative from Debian. ;-)) Welcome in the boat of

Re: future of blas/lapack/atlas packages?

2008-07-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
(Doku and Camm re-added to CC --Dirk) On 8 July 2008 at 16:02, Ondrej Certik wrote: | Hi, | | thanks Matthias for raising this issue. Seconded! This has always been a point of great pride for Debian, and I have provided Atlas to users of R and Octave (when I still maintained the latter) for

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote: > >> It was me who wrote this wiki, as I thought that the >> DebianScientificComputingTeam was the only scientific team in Debian. >> >> Now that I learned that there are two, I thin

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote: It was me who wrote this wiki, as I thought that the DebianScientificComputingTeam was the only scientific team in Debian. Now that I learned that there are two, I think the purpose of Debian Science team could be to cover sort of everything, as you have

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScientificComputingTeam says "The aim of Debian Scientific Computing Team is to provide home for all scientific packages in Debian

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScientificComputingTeam says "The aim of Debian Scientific Computing Team is to provide home for all scientific packages in Debian. " and doesn't mention http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience (and vice versa). Btw, this

Re: joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote: What is the purpose of Debian Science -- isn't it better to join the two teams? Well, Debian Science is a little bit more than just packaging and the scope is wider than just "computing". If you look at the tasks page http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/s

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Chris Walker
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 07:00:34PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Sylvestre Ledru > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > In the long run I'd really love to see the clans unite and grew into one > >> > Debian Science team with specialized "subgroups". But there is muc

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Chris Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 07:00:34PM +0200, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Sylvestre Ledru >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> > In the long run I'd really love to see the clans unite and grew into

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > In the long run I'd really love to see the clans unite and grew into one >> > Debian Science team with specialized "subgroups". But there is much more >> > to do first and I doubt that everyone is with me in this resp

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
> > In the long run I'd really love to see the clans unite and grew into one > > Debian Science team with specialized "subgroups". But there is much more > > to do first and I doubt that everyone is with me in this respect. So > > we'll see where all this goes. > > > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Chris Walker
Manuel Prinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Dienstag, den 08.07.2008, 16:29 +0200 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: > > Ondrej Certikwrote: > > > is that it, or are there some more packages? > > > > > More package are coming like Worldwind, Scilab, libmatio (for me) and > > other are managed under the g

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Manuel Prinz
Am Dienstag, den 08.07.2008, 16:29 +0200 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: > Ondrej Certikwrote: > > is that it, or are there some more packages? > > > More package are coming like Worldwind, Scilab, libmatio (for me) and > other are managed under the git and svn vcs... Also, some are under the Debian Sci

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Hello, > Hi, > > I joined the Debian Scientific Computation Team > > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScientificComputingTeam > > about half a year ago, because I thought that is the scientific team in > Debian. Scientific computing software != Scientific software Debian Science is much more

Re: future of blas/lapack/atlas packages?

2008-07-08 Thread Matthias Klose
Ondrej Certik writes: > Hi, > > thanks Matthias for raising this issue. I am interested in helping with > this. > > We need to maintain the packages in a svn/git repository and I suggest > we simply create new packges, something like > > libatlas3.8-* > > or something. We get it compile, we g

Re: future of blas/lapack/atlas packages?

2008-07-08 Thread Ondrej Certik
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Matthias Klose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ondrej Certik writes: >> Hi, >> >> thanks Matthias for raising this issue. I am interested in helping with >> this. >> >> We need to maintain the packages in a svn/git repository and I suggest >> we simply create new packge

joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

2008-07-08 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, I joined the Debian Scientific Computation Team http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScientificComputingTeam about half a year ago, because I thought that is the scientific team in Debian. Now I noticed there is also a Debian Science team: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScience What is t

Re: future of blas/lapack/atlas packages?

2008-07-08 Thread Ondrej Certik
Hi, thanks Matthias for raising this issue. I am interested in helping with this. We need to maintain the packages in a svn/git repository and I suggest we simply create new packges, something like libatlas3.8-* or something. We get it compile, we get it to debian and we start fixing all pote

future of blas/lapack/atlas packages?

2008-07-08 Thread Matthias Klose
Hi all, blas and lapack are basic numeric libraries much used within Debian; the same holds for atlas which seems to be be needed by more and more packages. We had some difficulties getting these packages converted to build with gfortran; initial packages were made for experimental, then some pac