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Re: Announcement: New bugs pages, status of renaming



On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
> 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.

It fitted nicely into something I wanted to blog about for a while:

http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2008/11/opendatasourcestandards-is-not-enough.html

>> One thing I miss (wishlist), is a link to a page indicating which
>> packages belong to which task... particularly, where do I find bodr
>> and libcdk-java?
>
> You mean an alphabethically sorted list of packages that is in the
> list of dependencies naming the task(s) it is used in?

A link to [1] will do just fine :)

> This might
> be possible - but I'm not really convinced that this is urgently
> needed.  For example an easy answer to your question is given by
>
> $ apt-cache rdepends bodr libcdk-java
> libcdk-java
> Reverse Depends:
>  science-chemistry
>  science-chemistry
> bodr
> Reverse Depends:
>  science-chemistry
>  science-chemistry
>  libgcu0

Ah, that's handy... was not aware of that option...

> so both packages currently belong to the Chemistry task of Debian
> Science.  My guess that the real problem of your question is that
> you are missing these packages inside the DebiChem project.

Oh... I thought I saw some emails pass by about categorization of
packages in a wiki... but from the blow I understand that it just has
not been synchronized with [3] ?

> You might remind that I wrote:
>
>  "Please keep in mind that the tasks of this project are far from ready"
>
> actually I did not even heard from any DebiChem member whether they
> like my step to create tasks files for their project or not.  If I'm
> not missleaded the DebiChem project is currently basically a packaging
> effort runned by two people.  Michael Banck seems to be in favour of
> my effort (at least he told me that he likes the tasks pages I did
> for Debian Science and I hope that he likes the (half done) start of
> DebiChem pages [1] as well.  As I wrote in one of my previous mails[2]
> I did not finished the job to turn the categorisation which was
> done in the Wiki[3] (btw, it lists your packages in question amongst
> "Other")

Indeed. BTW, I like the idea of that page.

> because I will not spend my time into stuff which might not
> be accepted.

Yes, that's something I understand.

> So until I hear something positive about my work
> from the DebiChem people I will not continue with the tasks files.
> But feel free to go on with this work - it's all in SVN and if
> you want permission for editing - just tell me you Alioth login
> to add you to the project.

I'm also part of DebiChem, though unfortunately rather dorment in the
last two years... I'll check the discussion asap again, and comment on
it to the debichem ML.

Egon

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