Re: New science section
James Troup wrote to debian-devel-announce:
> There is now a new 'science' section in potato. If you have a package
> which belongs in there or know of one which does, please either file a
> bug against ftp.debian.org or (preferably) just reply to this mail.
It would be nice for package maintainers to agree on certain
types of packages, such that we don't make the situation worse by
spreading out similar packages into two sections (Should all
plotting packages go in science?)
I haven't seen the Science section description (not listed yet in
http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/) but here are my
packages which should probably be moved from math to science
(listed here to promote discussion, not as an official request to
move them):
gri 2.2.4-2 a language for scientific graphics programming.
gri is used to do PostScript plots and figures. You don't have
to be doing science to need that, but it's a better fit than
`math' section.
xplot 1.19-2 a simple x-y column data plotter for X.
This is a data exploration tool, so I'd say science section.
xtide 2.1.99dev1-1 provides tide and current predictions
Also better in science than in math, I think (I'm an oceanographer).
proj 4.3.3-1 Cartographic projection filter and library
Difficult call to make. It converts lat+lon to various
projections, which is a mathematical filter. But the use is
probably more science than math. I think I'd go science.
What do people think of my calls?
Should all plotting packages go in science?
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