On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Albin Blaschka wrote:
something similar is already happening with the Debian-GIS/ pkg-grass-general
- list: The aim of the people behind is to bring GIS-Software (Geographic
Information Systems) into Debian. The starting point was GRASS, therefore the
(now outdated) name,
On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Albin Blaschka wrote:
Mhmm, in general I am a biologist, too, and so I would be interested in a
Debian-Bio-Project in general. (but at the moment I am contracted with very
very little spare-time...)
That's the problem of many interested people - or rather for biologists
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Guanglei Xiong wrote:
BTW, I still think packaging and publishing for Debian is free and
accessible for every human being. So does Debian itself. There should be
no restriction that someone has already packaged something, and some
others must not package and publish it. I
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
What's the state of the packaging today?
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/i/insighttoolkit
Are they uploadable?
Not yet and I told Gavin Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] (who did a really
great job) the reasons why I think some work is
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Frederic Lehobey wrote:
Are there any plans to have some followup at debconf 6 with respect to
the scientific use of Debian?
I'd love to see continuous effort in this topic and I would love even more
if the Custom Debian Distribution idea
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
The next Quantian release will have once again a large selection of tools
incl a complete set of BioConductor packages (that part is not in Debian) but
What BioConductor version are you using? The BioConductor movement to
official Debian is a
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
Andreas' URL to the Debian Med project also had a lot of bio/generics
pointers.
... and if you konow something that is missing on this page just write
an e-mail to the debian-med list - that's what this list is for.
Kind regards
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Frederic Lehobey wrote:
That would be great. Personally, I favor the March meeting because we
would possibly see its output show up in Etch, but the most important
Ahhh, you think Etch will be released in December? ;-)))
duck
We could also add live CD stuff to the
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Brett Viren wrote:
Well, that is certanily a hard point to argue!
I've never done more than look into pdfscreen so I can't say much
about it. Except for one experiment with a groff based presentation
maker, a few excruciatingly painful GUIs (OpenOffice and PowerPoint,
I'm
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Luca Brivio wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:24:09 +0900
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I think that the real problem is that most academic software is
non-free, as it often mentions Do not make money with our work, or
share it with us. Thus splitting debian-med
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
Luca and I chatted briefly on jabber, and we are about to open a wiki
page on www.open-bio.org, in which we will list packages in molecular
biology and systems biology which could make it into debian, and see how
we can help it to happen.
Why not
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Frederic Lehobey wrote:
So far, at the time of writing, only 3 three people have expressed
their interest (plus Andreas Tille for December :
http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2006/01/msg00073.html) and, as
far as I know, none of them (excepted Andreas) are Debian
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, maicon wrote:
Xmgrace is a respectable plot application in scientic comunit and you can do
all that origin makes and even more ! i recommend !!
Labpot is a excelente progam to!
Scigraphica i never use but .
If I'm not completely wrong the issue was that the programs
Hi,
having read the report about i18n meeting in Extremadura at dda
I wonder how the status of a proposed CDD meeting or Debian science
meeting in Extremadura is? I vanished a little bit from the
scene in the first half of this year and thus I'm seeking for
the following information:
1. Is
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, [UTF-8] César Gómez Martín wrote:
Sorry, there are no more free slots. The last one will be the Debian
QA meeting of December.
This makes perfectly sense - I just wanted to make sure that we will
not miss any option.
Since no group was interested in having a meeting on
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
Ah, the pain with no autobuilders for non-free packages.
Exactly.
You will
have to find a developer with access to all of the architectures ia64,
mips, mipsel and s390 (m68k is ignored), and get them to build
binaries of the package.
In
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Andreas Tille wrote:
When I maintained this package I tried and I guess my successors tried
as well. Another solution was suggested nearly 5 years ago
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/11/msg01472.html
and if I remember also at other occurences but the search
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
I'm pretty sure you meant to say Architecture: any here. (For
anyone who might need clarification: an Architecture: any package must
Yes, Thanks for the hint.
I hope this didn't come across as nitpicky, just wanted to make sure
things were clear
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Andreas wrote:
4. debian/compat
The current debhelper version is 5.x. So if you have no
certain reason (like backporting to Sarge for instance),
I would recommend to use debhelper 5 here.
I used the version 4 because otherwise I could not build the
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Frederic Lehobey wrote:
The Extremadura meetings are over, but a similar opportunity has been
proposed by CETRIL (and somewhat not enough advertised) in Soissons
(France). The coming session (in February) is dedicated to Debian-edu:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Joel Merrick wrote:
Fuck off you weird prick.
Uhmm, what? Is there any reason to offend a poster this way?
On 2/10/07, Jonano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are developing a project called Futurismos, an OS for scientists
and we search some people able to help us.
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Lisandro [iso-8859-1] Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
Perhaps a metapackage should be done, best if coordinated through
this list.
Well, the meta-package technique is supported easily through cdd-dev
package. Feel free to ask me if ou have trouble implementing
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Lisandro [utf-8] Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
Well, I am reading tasksel's README.gz. Some things I found:
* To get a new task added to Debian, please file a bug report on tasksel.
Did you ever tried?
So we make a list (or perhaps a tree, to follow Carlo Segre's
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, [utf-8] Damián Viano wrote:
- debian-science
- debian-science-bio
- debian-science-math
- debian-science-physics
- debian-science-chem
What do others think? Am I missing something? Should we s/science// from
the second level packages?
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Charles Plessy wrote:
I think that you can safely make debian-science-bio depend on med-bio
and med-bio-dev only. Basic biology is part of Debian Med as
preclinical research.
Sounds reasonable.
In addition to the suggested packages, I think that a
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- debian-science-biology
Fine here and dependency of med-bio would make things easy as Charles suggested.
- debian-science-genomics
- debian-science-pharmaceuticals
*If* we had some intersting packages, I would rather create a
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It may not always make sense for things to stay in debian-med's tasks, even
if that's where they've traditionally lived. It may make more sense for them
to migrate to other task sets / packages, and for debian-med's tasks to
inherit wholesale from
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Lisandro [iso-8859-1] Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
[I hope you don't mind if I quite parts of your private mail, but I think
int belongs to the mailing list ...]
OK, I passed a rough list of the things debated in this thread to
On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Andreas Tille wrote:
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScienceClassification
Thanks for your sumarizing of the metapackages / tasksel thread.
I added some hints about helpful debian-edu packages (not complete
there are more interesting fields in Debian-Edu but I'm running
out
[EMAIL PROTECTED] in CC for just announcing the missing
of fancyheadings.sty]
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Michael Banck wrote:
* tetex-* got retired in Debian, texlive and texlive-latex-extra should
get added as Build-Depends. However, that still didn't do it for me,
it failed on
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Andreas Moll wrote:
Zivilcourage nennt man das, was von einem Mann übriggeblieben ist,
wenn sein Chef das Zimmer betreten hat!
-- Wernher Freiherr von Braun (Physiker)
Well, Wernher Freiherr von Braun was imho just one other brilliant german
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D. wrote:
Therefore, I suggest that one of the two nexus
file format libraries undergo a renaming. I would also
like to offer up my packages for adoption by somebody
who would actually know how to test them better than
I would. I have my packages
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D. wrote:
Uploaders: Paul van Tilburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Is this
correct?
No, this was just my hope when I first made the package some
time ago. But, Paul has no interest or use for the package.
Since then, Paul has gotten overworked and also
had to
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D. wrote:
Here's the quote from the DPM:
--
5.6.3 Uploaders
List of the names and email addresses of co-maintainers of the package, if
any. If the package has other maintainers beside the one named in the
Maintainer
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Teemu Ikonen wrote:
I've made packages of Meshlab with the relevant parts of the VCG
library included in the source (separate packaging does not make much
sense ATM, since VCG upstream does not even have a build system). The
source package is at
Hi,
I just want to make some advertising for the Libre Software Meeting
in Amiens from 10. to 14. July.
http://www.rmll.info/?lang=en
I'll be there from 9.th July evening to 15. July morning (and will
be accompanied by my wife). I hope to meet some Debian people there
especially if they
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
They will arrange travel inside Europe (exceptions exist),
hosting and food for max 20 people working on debian projects for
a long weekend in the coming half year.
http://wiki.debian.org/WorkSessionsExtremadura still holds.
Kudos to the Extremadura
Hi,
when I had my talk about Debian-Science at LSM in Amiens:
http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200707_lsm_science
the discussion brought up some intersting points that might be interesting
for all CDDs
Jannick Patois proposed a categorisation of quality. It might be reasonable
to
Hi,
this is a reminder to the possibility of sponsoring traveling and
accomodation for EU citizens to meet in Extremadura and to do some
serious Debian stuff. There is a web page for a CDD and Science
related meeting at.
http://wiki.debian.org/CustomDebian/Extremadura2007
I just added a
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
On 8/24/07, Frederic Lehobey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have gathered this information (and more) into a temptative
debian-science source package building several science-* packages
(with cdd-dev machinery).
Great!
I am unsure if it is ready to
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007, Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
I think a Recommends would be better than Depends, since that allows
one to install, and keep having installed, the meta-packages even if
there are problems with the recommended/dependant packages - which does
happen in unstable.
See me
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Andreas Tille wrote:
this is a reminder to the possibility of sponsoring traveling and
accomodation for EU citizens to meet in Extremadura and to do some
serious Debian stuff. There is a web page for a CDD and Science
related meeting at.
http://wiki.debian.org
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Christian Holm Christensen wrote:
The problem could be, that `-physics' is just a tad too broad - maybe
(and only maybe) it needs to be split up into parts (-nanoscience, -hep,
-theory, -bio, -solid, ...) with some `-physics-common' recommended
We all know that every
Hi,
on behalf of the organiser César Gómez Martín I would like to collect the
following data from those people that would like to work in the field of
Custom Debian Distributions in generel, Debian-Science and Debian-Med.
The information that is needed is:
- the preferred airport or airports
[debian-science list in CC because of Extremadura topic]
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Ronny Aasen wrote:
DebianEdu/Meeting/20071008
I missed an announcement on debian-edu list for the meeting. I would
think that would be alsways a good idea because there are people out there
who are very seldomly
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
PS: BTW, id deborphan really needed? I thought aptitude would be
superior?
Not sure. I like it, and do not know how to easily get a list of
'leaf' packages in the dependency graph using aptitude.
Forget my hint. My mind was reading debfoster
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Andreas Hirczy wrote:
You might try ImgSeek http://www.imgseek.net/
Or rather
$ apt-cache show imgseek
... even if I think findimagedupes is your friend.
Kind regards
Andreas.
--
http://fam-tille.de
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a
Hi,
some people might be aware that there is an effort to build some
meta packages foe a debian-science CDD. At the extremadura
workshop last October Frederic Daniel Luc Lehobey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and Dominique Belhachemi [EMAIL PROTECTED] did some
effort to create
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Hamish wrote:
that is quite simple (including backports.org), just add a link to:
http://packages.debian.org/package name
the name can even be sloppy, e.g. http://packages.debian.org/gdal
I dont's think so. IMHO the link should only be added if the package
really
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
Well, linking is the easiest way, I would prefer a summary page
because it is more useful that looking every project on the general
packages.debian.org or packages.qa.debian.org site.
About that I would think some web services which can be used
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
This group could take inspiration from pkg-scicomp or debian-med to
create his own policy (goals are very similar to pkg-scicomp).
I'm a little bit concerned about the nomen est omen _pkg_-science
and _pkg_scicomp. IMHO we need more than just
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, David Bremner wrote:
Well, perhaps, but:
- This is the naming convention suggested by the alioth guidelines
on the wiki[1], however authorative those are. Mind you, this is
a bit self referential, since these are the guidelines for
packaging projects
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
I think everybody agree on this. However, we have to start somewhere and
starting to add some interesting packages could be a good way to begin
and to interest people to this project, don't you think ?
Well, we might be much farther away. I guess
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
Isn't that eligible for adding interesting features for all CDD in SoC 2008?
In that case I could volunteer as a mentor for both PHP/Perl addons and
patches.
Actually it is exactly my plan to propose this for GSoC and I would also
volunteer
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
See URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-grass/packages/debian-gis .
There is source for a meta package, as well as rules to build a live
CD.
Just added the location to the update-tasks script that builds the
web page. I' will try to clean up
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Luca Brivio wrote:
I'd strongly vote for using debian-science list as the user because
IMHO we need a specific group of Debian maintainers who care about this
specific topic and this brings things in focus on the right list.
You might have a look at the CDD documentation
Hi,
as you might have read [1] there are Extremadura Debian Work Meetings
scheduled also for this year. Yesterday the Debian-Edu people got
the information [2] that there is a slot from April 2nd to April 6th.
I talked to Andreas Schuldei whether Debian-Med, Debian-Science and
general CDD
Hi,
just to keep you up to date with the deadline.
Extremadura meetings are a really good oportunity to get some
work done. You do not have to care about travel, a place to
sleep and food - just work. If this is right for you, just
apply now.
Kind regards
Andreas.
--
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
If I am approved, I'll be there as a volunteer. I'm not a DD :-)
There is no need to be a DD to do a lot of reasonable work. Moreover
staying at DebConf is the best opportunity to get your key signed which
is a precondiction to
On Thu, 1 May 2008, Bryan Bishop wrote:
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Charles Plessy wrote:
http://gpapers.org/
Added to
svn://svn.debian.org/cdd/projects/science/trunk/debian-science/tasks/typesetting
to make sure that this hint will not be forgotten. It shows up at
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
Who is actually maintaining the science/tasks pages?
The tasks files can be modified by every member of the Custom Debian
Distributions Alioth group:
https://alioth.debian.org/projects/cdd/
I see in the
Mathematics page [1] that octave2.1 is
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:
svn://svn.debian.org/cdd/projects/science/trunk/debian-science/tasks/typese
tting
please could you add Tellico? we have debian package and works very well. It's
a generic collection program but it also generate bib files, Lynx bib entry
and
Hi,
I just want to inform you that I now took over fully the libblitz++
package because markos retired from his Debian maintainership. I
cared for the last couple of uploads and was listed as Uploader so
I felt that it would be reasonable to take over maintainership. On
the other hand I would
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Steve McIntyre wrote:
The first thing I promised to do when I became DPL was to initiate a
thorough review of Debian's teams. Well, no time like the present!
I just answered your mail to Debian Med team. For the record and
readers of CDD list it is archived here:
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
There is still the pkg-science group under Alioth which aims to do that
too. If you want, I can give you the admin rights.
Ahh, that's probably a good idea. Well, we probably do not need two
competing VCS. It would be great if you could add me to
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Frederic Lehobey wrote:
There is a virtual package provided by octave2.1, octave2.9, octave3.0:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/octave
Sorry, I missed that.
Recommends: octave | octave3.0
Definitely (just commited)
to recover the above effect (if I am not wrong).
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Christophe Prud'homme wrote:
I agree. Is it not the same idea as the pkg-science team started by
Sylvestre Ledru (package there what is not more suitable somewhere
else like in DebiChem, pkg-scicomp, Debian Med, etc.)?
I would suggest pkg-scicomp which seems more suite
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
The only problem with this solution is the name
pkg-scicomp (scientific computing) which is too specific.
Many software won't fit into this title.
Well, I perfectly understand your intend but finally I don't care
about a name but about work getting
On Tue, 6 May 2008, David Bremner wrote:
Speaking as the maintainer of all packages in pkg-science ( all 3 :-)
), I don't mind any sort of merging plan.
That's good. ;-)
But I understood from
previous mails from C. Prudhomme that he (and others?) preferred to
keep pkg-scicomp a more
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Ross Boylan wrote:
Well, I perfectly understand your intend but finally I don't care
about a name but about work getting done.
I understand the sentiment, but in this case think the opposition is a
false one. If people with scientific, but not computer-scientific,
software
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Rudi Cilibrasi wrote:
Wow, small world! I have been very interested in WordNet for years
and in fact it has been a major (but relatively unpublished) and
recurring interest in my own personal computational linguistics
research. I have made first the popular poetry
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:
The robotics area is very wide. To many kind of packages could go there,
You should probably come up with a list of these many packages to gain the
interest of people here.
so, depends on the people, the interest, etc the idea could be
On Tue, 6 May 2008, David Bremner wrote:
If there is to be any sort of reorganization, ...
So well, David, no answers from pkg-scicomp so far. I do not really
know what this means, but I think we should not let the activity boil
down. Would you take over the job to restructure either
On Thu, 8 May 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
We could wait a few days more.
Surely we could, but I'm learned in the past that some days tend to
increase to some weeks while the number some is stretched in the
same way then the time unit.
They are doing a nice and important work.
No doubt
On Thu, 8 May 2008, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote:
Well, I'm working in an specific field of the robotics. But for example the
list could have:
- rtai
- xenomai
RTOS, both in debian now.
- rtnet, not in debian. Modules to have real time extension to the network.
- orocos, with debian
On Thu, 8 May 2008, Bryan Bishop wrote:
Hey there; if I wanted to get started with the a list of related
projects and the programs to be categorized in some ontology on the
wiki, where would I start?
I think starting with a Wiki is the wrong approach because it becomes
outdated very quickly.
On Thu, 8 May 2008, Ross Boylan wrote:
packagesearch should be useful.
But sounds also quite incomplete. I tested seeking Biology where
I know a lot of relevant packages but it brought up not nearly half
the relevant packages (even if it featured one that was new to me which
made the hint
On Fri, 9 May 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote:
I'm probably offline until Monday but would volunteer to get the
repository installed and set up. I guess I can report back on Wednesday
next week latest, if that's considered a reasonable time frame.
Sure.
I'll have a closer look but at the first
On Fri, 9 May 2008, Antonio Paiva wrote:
Just thought remembered today that all of you latex users (like me)
would like to know about latexdiff
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/latexdiff/).
Added to debian-science/tasks/typesetting which is rendered at
On Fri, 9 May 2008, Daniel Leidert wrote:
package1/trunk/
package1/branches/
package2/trunk/
package2/branches/
[..]
tags/package1/
tags/package2/
And finally write down this in a policy document to keep people informed ...
This is forgotten to often, unfurtunately.
Kind regards
On Sun, 11 May 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
I rejected your debian-science project request because I simply don't see
the point of it compared to the existing pkg-science. You can do much more
than packaging even behind the pkg-science umbrella.
I agre, that you perfectly can do a lot of
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Okay, I resurrected debian-science... and I added all pkg-science users to
the new project. Now please move everything from the pkg-science
project to the debian-science project and tell me when I can remove
pkg-science.
Thanks for the prompt
On Mon, 12 May 2008, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:
Once I see that the tasks files are growing I will be
happy to add the remaining formalism to finalise the work on this. Feel
free to tell me your alioth user name to add you to the CDD group in SVN
which grants you write permissions.
On Tue, 13 May 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
So can I remove the pkg-science project and its associated svn repository?
I injected wordnet today morning as a testing balloon - and it was successfully
moved to debian-science (as well as the other stuff). So removal of pkg-science
seems to be
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
It is a draft, probably full of mistakes, imprecisions and fuzzy. Don't
hesitate to update it.
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/ContributingToDebianScience
Just added Link to Debian Science CDD meta packages and a hint how actually
work on the
On Fri, 16 May 2008, Frederic Lehobey wrote:
:-) Can we put cronjobs in Alioth accounts?
Well, David Paleino did so to update the Debian Med tasks. So
I guess if you have a login on Alioth you can do so. You should
make sure that you set your umask properly to allow any group
member to
yn Sun, 18 May 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
Since we do not know if we will move to one repository or keep both running
forever, I'd prefer to have the same repository layout in both VCSs.
Yep, I agree with you. It is a work in progress.
I would even go one step further: We should move the
On Sun, 18 May 2008, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
Those are of course valid points, though I still think that is something that
can be generated from the meta-information that is already available. Writing
a script for that should be fairly trivial and I'd be happy to do so!
Does anyone else has an
On Sun, 18 May 2008, David Bremner wrote:
At the moment I am preoccupied with deciding how to best transition
my quilt based packages to git. Of course keeping using quilt is an
option.
Uhm, I hope so. I really hope that using quilt _and_ git is no
contradiction.
I think that tasks sound
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
Wait a minute. What's wrong with using svn for those who want to?
I have some packages that I'd like to put into debian-science at some
point, but I'm not about to learn the favourite vcs of the week to
do so.
favourite vcs of the week - ROFL ;-)
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote:
Sorry for being unclear! As stated in my other email, I was talking
about the task files. Those are (in my understanding) meta-information
about which packages belong the task or category and therefore which
tasks or categories a package belongs. For
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote:
I have to say that I do not see a reason why to enforce things here. Of
course it's not the optimal solution but I would be perfectly fine to
have both system in parallel so people have time to learn a new VCS.
If you have to much time to learn it
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote:
Maybe I'll find some time on the weekend or next week to write it. If
someone else steps up, I'm fine with that too. As you say, I do not
think it's urgent.
You would most probably like to use
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
I was merely reacting to Sylvestre's proposal that git be the ONLY vcs
allowed. My question stands: is there any real disadvantage to
allowing the user's choice of vcs?
I think there is. In the Debian Med team people sometimes do some changes
via
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Teemu Ikonen wrote:
I'll try to add the final polish to rasmol this weekend and move the
existing git repo from collab-maint to debian-science, since I'm more
active in that group. Group maintenance of rasmol would be nice, but
is it ok to change the maintainer field to
Hi,
there are several open bugs in the TeXMaker package that are not RC enough
to justify a NMU but the fact that they are not even answered by the maintainer
to acknowledge that he has registered the problems makes me wonder whether
the maintainer is MIA. So I started some action [1] and fixed
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote:
I'll add a paragraph about that. We can also change it to Debhelper.
That's what is discussion is for: To find a consensus about that. At the
moment, it is just a suggestion.
I think: Suggesting / recommending tu use CDBS where it makes sense if
fine -
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Daniel Leidert wrote:
there are several open bugs in the TeXMaker package that are not RC enough
to justify a NMU
Did I miss something? Why need bugs to have an RC status to get fixed by
NMU? As long as you follow the best practices, you can fix all bugs by
NMU.
OK, NMU
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote:
a first draft of the Debian Science Policy is now available in the Debian
Science repository and can be checked out with:
git clone git://git.debian.org/git/debian-science/policy.git
Now I was able to read the proposal:
A list of packages has been
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote:
I'd volunteer for that since I already did some of the work and have
patches ready. I wonder what is the best way to handle it: File bugs or
apply the patches to the VCS? Most of the packages do not have Vcs-*
fields set, so I could fix that while at it.
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