Re: Cronjob for science tasks

2008-06-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: group maintenance in our BTS. For instance I did so with texmaker. s/BTS/Vcs/ Andreas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: add a how to use debian science section to the wiki

2008-06-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio wrote: I still don't understand well how to use debian science's resources. Well, you can use Debian Science perfectly as you are using Debian because it is a completely internal project and is nothing else than Debian itself. We just felt a need

Re: add a how to use debian science section to the wiki

2008-06-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio wrote: A draft for such a section could be: ... Sounds good. BTW, I'd go for a real Wiki page instead of drafts here on this list. A wiki is a wiki is a wiki - just use it and don't be too shy. ;-) Kind regards Andreas. --

Re: Package categories

2008-06-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 29 Jun 2008, Chris Walker wrote: For example http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics.php lists packages to do Finite element analysis, optical simulation, xray absorption spectroscopy, ab inito quantum mechanics and computer algebra. I propose to post to this list or the

Re: [Announce] New tasks web Bpages for all CDDs

2008-07-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Chris Walker wrote: For example, the link for salome is http://www.debian.org/Bugs/#457075 when it should be http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=457075 Ahh, good catch: It's just the '#' which has to be removed from the template. Just testing it and will

Re: [Announce] New tasks web Bpages for all CDDs

2008-07-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks_new/statistics.html lists a science-mathematics meta-package. Is this intentional or a bug? Well, not really a bug, but also not the final intention. The problem becomes even more visible in:

Re: [Announce] New tasks web Bpages for all CDDs

2008-07-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Adam C Powell IV wrote: I think I'll wishlist it to debian-science... Damn, you were even faster than me and I've thought I would have been quick. ;-)) Well, to get this done we should release current SVN status as debian-science 0.2 soon because we will face some delay

Re: [Announce] New tasks web Bpages for all CDDs

2008-07-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Adam C Powell IV wrote: It's not missing any more. Thank you! You are welcome. ;-)) OK, so you would like to propose to move these two prospective package entries from physics to engineering? I think this would make sense. Done. Done as libmesh0.6.2 (hmmm, I have

Re: [Announce] New tasks web Bpages for all CDDs

2008-07-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Felipe Figueiredo wrote: Am I missing something, or packages can't be in more than one category/task in this system? There is no reason thich prevents having a package in several tasks. Installing a metapackage for a task should give you a complete working environment to

Bug#489768: ITP: ngspice -- A Spice circuit simulator (fwd)

2008-07-07 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, for ITPs that might interest Debian Med I would now go and add this ITP to the tasks file in question. Any volunteeer to do this for Debian Science and add this entry as prospective package to electronics? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- Forwarded

Re: [Announce] New tasks web Bpages for all CDDs

2008-07-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Chris Walker wrote: So the purpose of the meta package is to list packages that a physicist will use, and not to classify physics packages. That makes sense - and I'd previously missed that. I can then ask my sysadmin to install the physics metapackge safe in the knowledge

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

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

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

2008-07-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Ondrej Certik wrote: It seems to me that all I need are quality packages and also make them work together. But maybe some other people need more also. If you are using Debian for 7 years you will need not much more. Try to convince a not-yet Debian user ... I like the

Re: Bug#489768: ITP: ngspice -- A Spice circuit simulator (fwd)

2008-07-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote: Done. Thanks! (Hope I got the format right.) Nearly. ;-) I just reduced the number of blanks in the long description to one to avoid verbatim rendering. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Bug#490247: cdd-dev: Data from official package should take precedence on manually filed data in task file

2008-07-15 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Frederic (and others), I just want to mention that in the log file /srv/alioth.debian.org/chroot/home/groups/cdd/webtools/logs/debian-science.out those packages are mentioned that have resolved ITP bugs and thus can be removed from the prospective package list in the tasks files to

Re: wiki pages

2008-07-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Chris Walker wrote: How do people see the role of the wiki pages? Are they a list of packages people want packaged, and some indication of progress on the packaging? Are they to give information to researchers in particular subject areas on what packages are available? Are

Re: [Debichem-devel] [Announce] New tasks web pages for all CDDs

2008-07-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Michael Banck wrote: So it seems somebody went forth with this, at least there is now a science-chemistry package I never heard about before. So far, I understood the nice task web pages as just some aggregation of packages based on debtags or other criteria, and was not

Re: Package categories

2008-07-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Michael Banck wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 07:03:58PM +0100, Chris Walker wrote: === Structure calculation === Abinitio Semi Empirical === Molecular graphics === So we would have four categories for DebiChem? Certainly the chemistry stuff

Re: [Debichem-devel] [Announce] New tasks web pages for all CDDs

2008-08-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Michael Banck wrote: I've requested to be added to the cdd alioth project now. I did this yesterday. Just tell me if you have any trouble (either in private or here on this list, alternatively on debichem list while keeping me on cc - I do not read Debichem list) OK,

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] Package categories

2008-08-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Christophe Prud'homme wrote: Science and pkg-scicomp and the possible actions to take (for example merge pkg-scicomp into Debian Science) I would be in favour of a merge. It is not very wise to have two projects whithout reason (especially if the protagonists of one of

Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] Package categories

2008-08-04 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 2 Aug 2008, Michael Banck wrote: We have the following, as far as I can tell: biology - debian-med chemistry - debichem, with some in debian-med and debian-science ACK (for both, even if the scope of debian-med contains more than only Biology). physics - (?, right now pkg-scicomp

Re: Package categories

2008-08-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Frederic Lehobey wrote: There is also some stuff around Wikipedia. My main motto: let's not reinvent the wheel. ACK. An please try to avoid making a science of it how to classify packages. It might be a really interesting topic but I would not be happy if this is

Re: A great list of scientific software

2008-08-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Chris Walker wrote: There are also some interesting categories that don't correspond to debian-science metapackages. Specifically Vector drawing tools, plot digitizers (for extracting numbers from data you only have as a graph), and distributed computing tools. Also,

New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I would like to hear opinons about the new naming proposal given at http://wiki.debian.org/CDDNamingProposals#head-7bb1ae330046f9d0720b77e76d6ee7aa992 b754f So I think we should go on renaming waht formerly used to be Custom Debian Distributions to Debian Integrated Solutions

New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I would like to hear opinons about the new naming proposal given at http://wiki.debian.org/CDDNamingProposals#head-7bb1ae330046f9d0720b77e76d6ee7aa992b754f So I think we should go on renaming waht formerly used to be Custom Debian Distributions to Debian Integrated Solutions

Re: texmaker: Recommends on ghostscript

2008-09-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Ruben Molina wrote: The attached patch should incorporate the Jonas' NMU, add a Recommends on ghostscript (gs-* are dummy packages) and, fix LaTeX spelling to get a lintian clean package. Ruben, thanks for your patch. I think we should upload texmaker soon but I would like

Re: texmaker: Recommends on ghostscript

2008-09-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Ruben Molina wrote: $ who-uploads texmaker Uploads for texmaker: 1.7.1-2.1 to unstable: Jonas Smedegaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ups, you are right - I was working on a not updated package cache. Sorry for the confusion. I will try to revert my changes, inject the upload in SVN

Re: texmaker: Recommends on ghostscript

2008-09-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Backports are unofficial by nature. If you choose to make some packaging backport-friendly then you go beyond the logic of official Debian packaging, and lintian hinting no longer applies. In other words: Don't blindly follow lintian hints if you

Re: texmaker: Recommends on ghostscript

2008-09-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: I did intend to convert to Git and co-maintain (and surprised that I can't find any traces of beginnings of that Git conversions on my machine). But now I come to think about it, I'd rather not: I do not currently use TeX at all, might explore it some

Re: does anyone know a substitution for CrystalMaker

2008-09-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: I'm not quite sure what you are looking for, as I do not know CrystalMaker, but here are some proposals based on the education-chemistry task for visualizing molecules: http://viewmol.sourceforge.net/ http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/

Re: does anyone know a substitution for CrystalMaker

2008-09-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Carlo Segre wrote: As someone else mentioned, Jmol is a good choice too but there was only an unoffical Debian package which is 3 years out of date and not on the http://debian.wgdd.de/debian site any longer. I do have that package if you are interested but I have not

Re: does anyone know a substitution for CrystalMaker

2008-09-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Ji ZhengYu wrote: I have an advice, remove this link http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/edu/tasks/chemistry.html ^^^ because I think it's spare. Why we need this if there is a much more complete source in

Name poll (Was: New name: Call for opinions)

2008-09-26 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi once more to all related lists, my suggestion for a new name received a lot of comments and it turned out that I got not so much positive reactions on the mailing list than when discussing it with people at DebConf. The consequence of the discussion of the debian-custom mailing list was that

Re: Name poll (Was: New name: Call for opinions)

2008-09-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: So we decided to remove all votes from the current ballot next Monday morning This happened now because nobody showe up who found a way to change a vote on doodle. and start voting again about the suggestions which are known at this point in time

Re: Presentation of Debian Science/Octave/Scilab/Scicomp, roundtable on free software

2008-10-02 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Christophe Prud'homme wrote: I was wondering if there are some presentation of Debian Science and the Octave team available, and in particular information like the following http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200808_science/ Kind regards Andreas. --

Re: Creating a debian robotics group inside debian science

2008-10-05 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Robotics - which doesn't exist. Is there somewhere more appropriate for it to point? I think that Andreas should do something to add in the wiki, but I'm not sure. I will definitely not create a page I

Re: Name poll (Was: New name: Call for opinions)

2008-10-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: Once the poll is restarted from scratch no additional name suggestions will be accepted. The new name will be in the set specified inside the poll. People several times criticised that this type of poll is inferior to a condorset voting method

Re: Chemistry wiki page

2008-10-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Chris Walker wrote: No. I think they should be included in the task package, but I'm a physicist and don't want to force my opinion on chemists. Ah, OK. In addition to the task packages, I'd like to see a categorised list something like

Re: [Debichem-devel] Chemistry wiki page

2008-10-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Daniel Leidert wrote: 1. Create tasks files and cdd-dev stuff under svn://svn.debian.org/cdd/projects/debichem/trunk/debichem/ (or whatever name you prefer) -- I volunteer to do this provided somebody takes over the categorisation work 2.

Re: [Debichem-devel] Chemistry wiki page

2008-10-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Michael Banck wrote: Thanks, I've now extended it a bit and shuffled things around. Fine. I might turn this into tasks files at end of October. (I'm offline next week and at OSWC the week after with less chances to do such work.) My previous opinion still holds - some

Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference

2008-10-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote: Sure. So, to summarize, we have the following options: 1. The references are added to the long description 2. The references are added to Packages via a new X-* field 3. The references are added to debian/copyright 4. The references are

Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference

2008-10-18 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Andreas Tille wrote: would just want to note that your prefered choice is the option that makes the implementation on the tasks page the hardest amongst all the options. I do not see this as an unresolvable problem but it delays the implementation the most. ... sorry

Re: agent-based simulation

2008-10-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: we will warmly welcome swarm in our repository, but since it seems to have a broader scope that just medecine and biology, I recommend to check before on debian-science@lists.debian.org if some people would prefer to co-maintain it there. I

Bug#502980: ITP: ffc -- compiler for finite element variational forms (fwd)

2008-10-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm wondering whether this might be another target for a category Simulation. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:57:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Johannes Ring [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: agent-based simulation

2008-10-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Scott Christley wrote: (http://www.swarm.org ) which is an agent-based simulation toolkit that I would like to package into Debian. It was suggested that I email this list as debian-science has a broader view. I looked through the metapackages listed on the wiki, but its

Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference

2008-10-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Adam C Powell IV wrote: You replied to a message more than a week old, and missed an option which came up last week, see below. I was offline for two weeks with a small window in between where I most probably missed something. Option 5 doesn't delay implementation at

Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference

2008-10-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Chris Walker wrote: If you were to put the software first - eg apbs:Baker2001, tab completion of the reference would be easier as I'm more likely to remember the name of the software than the name of the author. I have no strong opinion about this - but considering that

Re: [Debichem-devel] Chemistry wiki page

2008-10-30 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Michael Banck wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:10:14AM +0100, Chris Walker wrote: I have added almost all[1] the science-chemistry packages to the http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Chemistry page. I have done some categorisation of them, but mainly from their

Announcement: New bugs pages, status of renaming

2008-11-06 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm proud to announce a new QA tool for all CDD^W Blends: Overview about all bugs about Dependencies of our metapackages. For the impatient here is a list of these pages: Edu: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/edu/bugs GIS: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/gis/bugs Jr:

Re: Announcement: New bugs pages, status of renaming

2008-11-07 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Egon Willighagen wrote: DebiChem: http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/debichem/bugs as well. Very nice overview! I really like this. Thanks. One thing I miss (wishlist), is a link to a page indicating which packages belong to which task... particularly, where do I find

Re: yacas and Mathematics task

2008-11-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: It is, however, mathematical software, marginally useful, and it doesn't have a large footprint, so I wouldn't mind having it as a mathematics task (this is tasksel we're talking about, right?). I think we talk about integration into the

Re: Announcement: New bugs pages, status of renaming

2008-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Chris Walker wrote: That's true, though if the although a normal bug fixed The reason IYes, that's true. The rationale behind suggesting it was that it ... ups this paragraph is unfinished ... After lenny is released would be a better time to tune the number - at the

Re: Announcement: New bugs pages, status of renaming

2008-11-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Chris Walker wrote: I did wonder about suggesting: AB C wishlist: 11 1 minor: 23 4 normal:49 16 important: 8 27 64 serious: 16 81256 grave:32 243 1024 critical: 64 729 4096 ie one normal bug is

Re: DebianScience Live

2008-12-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: What about the projects at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/LiveCD ? What features are most important that aren't available yet? What I meant to say is that it looks like the debian-live effort is active and will release DVDs with lenny. Is anyone

Re: [DebianGIS] DebianGis and DebianScience/Geography

2008-12-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Hamish wrote: feel free to edit the wiki page; the geography meta-package is already listed: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis/PackageList (not all packages on that list are included in tasks) Anybody cares to maintain the tasks files? Any reason for not touching the

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 8 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: Depends: g3data Done in SVN. Other packages - yes, Steffen Moeller's suggestion of qtdmm sounds appropriate. Done in SVN. On the physics wiki page, I list libgpib (boris) Suggests: libgpib-bin libcomedi (boris) Depends: ktimetrace and

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Gerber van der Graaf wrote: A whole area of science that depend on image analyses (from microscopic to astronomics) might like to include different programs to control cameras. Some ideas: In general I like the idea to give the whole bunch of image acquistion programs some

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: Indeed. The big advantage of the wiki is the ease with which anyone can edit it and categorise things themselves Could you please have a look at the WIki Changelog who actually did the last ten edits. (No, I did not checked, but I wild guess there are

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: There might be some merit in an ImageAnalysis task as well (or perhaps instead). Yes. Just provide perhaps three package dependencies for this task and I will create the according tasks file - or just create it yourself according to the given template

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: Libcv1 - a computer vision library What do you want to tell me by this? This is for image analysis - and so should probably go alongside Gpiv - in an image acquisition/analysis metapackage. OK, one dependency for imageanalysis. Any more? gpsd -

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Carlo Segre wrote: So why do you hesitate to upload? Primarily because the documentation is not complete and there are a couple of final issues in the packaging that need to straightened out. The documentation will take a long time so it should probably not be a

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Stuart Prescott wrote: I'll put you on Responsible for this project in the tasks page ... Sure. (Gee, I walked right in to that one, didn't I!?) Fine. Any hint how to link to the Ububtu package? There's no ubuntu package (there may be unofficial ones floating around

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-10 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Agreed, I find that in particular very irritating. How are we to communicate information about our packages to Ubuntu science folk? It's not at all clear where to email such info other than said mailing list, but I also have never been able to get

Re: science-imageanalysis (Was: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition)

2008-12-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Thibaut wrote: I believe Yorick should be there too. http://packages.debian.org/sid/yorick Rationale: it's an interpreted language à la IDL/GDL, many people use this for analysing data, including images (e.g. astronomical). From the description (apt-cache show yorick)

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Jordan Mantha wrote: ... I think that is largely the state of afairs. Morten has done excellent work and I've shifted essentially all my scientific packaging pursuits to Debian Science and Debchem. I even became a DM to help do as much work as I'm able to in Debian with the

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: I do not know if it has been well advertised, but we also can have links to Ubuntu bugs from Debian: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.orgubuntu=1ordering=3 It is in fact not that well advertised

New web feature: packagelist (Was: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition)

2008-12-12 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as it was requested on the debian-science mailing list [1] we should provide in addition to our tasks pages a short overview about the packages as Ubuntu Science is doing[2]. I roughly implemented this feature for all Blends. It is available at the following locations: Debian Edu:

Re: New -dev tasks

2008-12-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Manuel Prinz wrote: I do not know if there are libraries without any -dev packages. Having a library package installing development files seems like bad packaging practice to me. It's not all about libraries. Have a look at

Re: science-imageanalysis (Was: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition)

2008-12-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: I don't feel the description fully captures what I want it to say, so suggestions for improvement appreciated. The name is not set in stone either. Looks good. ... Depends: gnudatalanguage Why: numerical programming environment compatible with IDL

Re: science-imageanalysis (Was: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition)

2008-12-15 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Chris Walker wrote: A significant number of packages, including pdl, also lack a homepage field. I have been holding off filing these bugs until lenny is released (but maybe I should file them now). Same thing wis Homepage field: When I started with the tasks pages I

Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft matter

2009-01-16 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, thanks to a hint from Helge Kreutzmann I had a look at ESPResSo++ http://espresso.scai.fraunhofer.de/ Extensible Simulation Package for Research on Soft matter ESPResSo is a highly versatile software package for the scientific simulation and analysis of coarse-grained atomistic or

Bug#512069: Acknowledgement (ITP: r-cran-plotrix -- GNU R package providing various plotting functions) (fwd)

2009-01-16 Thread Andreas Tille
To: Andreas Tille til...@rki.de Subject: Bug#512069: Acknowledgement (ITP: r-cran-plotrix -- GNU R package providing various plotting functions) Thank you for filing a new Bug report with Debian. This is an automatically generated reply to let you know your message has been received. Your message

Yet another list statistics for debian-science

2009-01-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, as you can read in my lightning talk at DebConf http://people.debian.org/~tille/talks/200808_lightning/ I did some investigation on who is frequently posting on our mailing lists. I now created graphs until end of last year and write a short summary for those lists I regard worth a

R packages in Debian Science (Was: ITP: r-cran-colorspace -- GNU R Color Space Manipulation)

2009-01-20 Thread Andreas Tille
. Any comment is welcome Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:57:32 +0100 From: Andreas Tille til...@rki.de To: Debian Bug Tracking System sub...@bugs.debian.org Subject: ITP: r-cran-colorspace -- GNU R Color Space Manipulation

Re: Yet another list statistics for debian-science

2009-01-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Brett Viren wrote: http://people.debian.org/~tille/liststats/authorstat_science.pdf It is interesting work. Thanks. BTW, according to some request of debian-user-german I cropped the surname to one letter to regard some data privacy. If you want suggestions, it would

Re: Yet another list statistics for debian-science

2009-01-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 20 Jan 2009, Chris Walker wrote: If the traffic from the top 10 contributors is representative, In small groups like this I think it is. The stat definitely removes SPAM which is included in a plain summary. then debian-science has taken off. I think this is a good thing. Hopefully

Re: Debian Science Policy (was: adding mpich to pkg-scicomp)

2009-01-26 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Daniel Leidert wrote: ... how you come to the idea to dictate a policy?!?!?! And: *If* we (all the teams and maintainers) ever agree on one mailing list, then it will definitely not be an Alioth list. debian-science exists. I understand the RFC as an attempt to find a

Re: Bug#513296: debian-science: Please add science-all meta-package

2009-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
[debian-custom in CC because it is strongly related] On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Daniel Baumann wrote: it would be nice if you could add a science-all meta-package that depends on all science-* meta packages. That would make live-cd building a bit easier in future, as nobody would need to 'maintain'

Re: Debian Science Policy

2009-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Daniel Leidert wrote: PS: I don't care, if guys at debian-science.alioth.d.o write a Debian Science Policy. I can imagine a lot of topics for such a policy (for users, authors and packagers) trying to help the effort of Debian Science and I will happily throw my ideas into

Re: R packages in Debian Science (Was: ITP: r-cran-colorspace -- GNU R Color Space Manipulation)

2009-01-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Ross Boylan wrote: I haven't been following closely enough to know the purpose, but potentially every R package is (or could be imagined to be) is statistical. Sure. But for instance I'm rather busy packaging r-surveillance and other R tools for use in epidemiology.

Re: Difference between Debian Scientfic Computing Packages and Debian Science?

2009-01-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: At any rate, which one do I need to join to upload an updated cimg-dev version without NMUing? $ apt-cache show cimg-dev | grep Maintainer Maintainer: Debian Scientific Computing Team pkg-scicomp-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org But without

Re: Newbie presentation and slashdot thread

2009-01-31 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Chris Walker wrote: This list may or may not be of interest- http://heybryan.org/mediawiki/index.php/Comp_chem_linkdump I've added it to http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/OtherLinks and the chemistry wiki page. It would be more useful if it had information Would you

For those who care about CDD SVN

2009-01-31 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, this is not yet an official announcement but I would like all those who might try to commit any changes - especially those concerning tasks files for Debian Jr, Debian Science and Debian Med - to the SVN repository that this has been moved now. We are approaching the final phase of the

Re: RC bugs in science packages

2009-02-03 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Manuel Prinz wrote: If you have a look at the lenny-only list [1], they're not listed. But thanks for caring! Ditto. On an aside, would it be a good thing to have such email of RC bugs in scientific packages on a regular basis (e.g. monthly)? I guess it is not too hard

Re: Bug#514903: ITP: pymca -- Python toolkit and application for X-ray fluorescence analysis

2009-02-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Chris Walker wrote: * Package name: pymca [snip] I've added it to the science-physics task. Great. Prelimary packages will be soon at the Debian Science repository at git.debian.org. When it is, if you let me know I'll add that information to the task too.

Re: tango package

2009-02-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: Do you thing that it could be possible to move this repository into the debian-science git repository. Sure, why not? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de

Re: Vcs-Git etc (was Re: Bug#514903: ITP: pymca -- Python toolkit and application for X-ray fluorescence analysis)

2009-02-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Chris Walker wrote: s/Vcs-Snv/Vcs-Svn/ Thanks. Also, it might be useful to link back to where the syntax of these fields is defined - and how the use in blends is different (if at all). Done. There is no difference (which I know of - and there should not be). mlpost

Using UDD for Blends and Vcs (Was: Bug#514903: ITP: pymca ...)

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Manuel Prinz wrote: This would be really nice! As for Git, there are two things to concider: First, we probably need to agree to the name of the branch in which the debian/ files exist: some use master, some debian, or whatever seems to fit. Second, one has to consider that

Re: RC bugs in science packages

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Chris Walker wrote: Another closely related thing is to use the watch file results to post a list of packages that are out of date compared to upstream. debichem has done this already I think. There is currently some discussion on debian-qa list about including watch file

Re: Bug#514751: ITP: pgfplots -- TeX package to draw normal and/or logarithmic plots directly in TeX

2009-02-16 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 15 Feb 2009, Frank Küster wrote: OHURA Makoto oh...@debian.org wrote: Package: wnpp Owner: OHURA Makoto oh...@debian.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: pgfplots Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Christian Feuersanger * URL or Web page :

Re: Bug#514751: ITP: pgfplots -- TeX package to draw normal and/or logarithmic plots directly in TeX

2009-02-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: pgfplots will be in texlive-pictures since it can be found there in TL (collection-pictures), and this is also the place where pgf and other pgf related packages are (pgf-soroban, pgfopts, tikz-inet9). That makes sense. But if you package

ITP: z88 -- Finite Element Analysis Program (fwd)

2009-02-20 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, this is probably a good target for Debian Science. WHich tasks would you suggest to add it? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:47:20 +0100 From: Dominique Belhachemi domi...@cs.tu-berlin.de To:

Re: ITP: z88 -- Finite Element Analysis Program (fwd)

2009-02-21 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Dominique Belhachemi wrote: Z88 belongs now to the engineering section. ;-) Many thanks for just adding it to the tasks file. ;-) ANdreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Bug#516545: ITP: eprover -- The Equational Theorem Prover E

2009-02-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, this seems like a nce target for Debian Science Mathematics section. Petr, do you consider putting the package under Debian Science team maintenance? Kind regards Andreas. On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Petr Pudlak wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Petr Pudlak d...@pudlak.name

Re: Bug#516545: ITP: eprover -- The Equational Theorem Prover E

2009-02-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Petr Pudlak (Debian) wrote: yes, I thought that it would be a good idea, but I couldn't find exact guidelines how to do it. (Maybe it's just because I'm a bit tired after spending the whole weekend reading Debian documentation.) I can package eprover according to

Re: Bug#516627: ITP: fudgit -- A double-precision multi-purpose fitting program

2009-02-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Jan, this might be an interesting add on for Debian Science Viewing task. Would you consider group maintenance in the Debian Science team? Kind regards Andreas. On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Jan Hendrik den Besten wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Hendrik den Besten

Re: Bug#516627: ITP: fudgit -- A double-precision multi-purpose fitting program

2009-02-22 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Jan Hendrik den Besten wrote: Fudgit would be my first package to maintain. I feel I must gain some experience in that first - before I take up other tasks. Well, nobody is forcing you to join a team - you are perfectly free to do so. But I feel some inconsitency in your

Re: Bug#516545: ITP: eprover -- The Equational Theorem Prover E

2009-02-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Petr Pudlak (Debian) wrote: as I was suggested, I'm looking for a sponsor for the eprover package, who would help me with publishing the package. If you are seeking for a sponsor it is a clever idea to post the URL to your *.dsc file to enable others to evaluate your

Re: Bug#516545: ITP: eprover -- The Equational Theorem Prover E

2009-02-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Petr Pudlak (Debian) wrote: dget -u http://petr.pudlak.name/deb/eprover_1.0.004-1.dsc I had a short look onto your work and would like to give some comments. At first you obviousely did a good job to create a lintian clean package of a complex software! Considering that

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