Re: Access to collab-maint

[Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>]

Hi Andreas,

On Wed, 15 Apr, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:

Hi Ghislain, On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 02:16:07PM +0100, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:

Dear all, Is there anyone in the team who can grant me access to collab-maint ? I have sent a enquiry email via the Alioth page a while back and never got any reply. I have got some non-science related packages that I'd like to host on collab-maint instead of d-science / d-med.

I vaguely remember that creating a repository on collab-maint need to be done by a DD and requires manual intervention.

The description in [1] does not explicitly mentioned this is restricted to DD usage. 

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/CollabMaint

Please give proper why you prefer collab-maint which requires extra work with no visible profit over debian-med/debian-science.

I thought only packages or deps related to scientific packages were welcome in 

d-science. Since some packages I work on seemed to fit the description in [1], I 

thought about using collab-maint instead.

We have previously packaged non-med / non-science software as preconditions for our target packages and I see no point to derive from this habit for cosmetic reasons.

The one package I had in mind at the moment was bitstring [2], which is more of a 

general purpose module but may become an install-dep of future scientific packages.

[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781540

Bottom line is I should stick to d-science for this one ?

Thanks for your very much for your comments,

Ghis