Re: the math section should really be science
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 10:02:28PM -0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > > I'm packaging viewmol, a program for visualising molecules, used in
> > > computational chemistry.
> > >
> > > The question arises, what subsection should it be put into?
> > > A comparable program, rasmol, is already in debian, in the math subsection.
> > > But computational chemistry is not, strictly speaking, mathematics (it
> > > can be considered a sub-branch of mathematics, but you don't usually talk
> > > about the weight or electron affinity of a number).
> >
> > So, put it in "science" section.
> >
> > % grep-available -F Section -s Package science
> > Package: hodie
> > %
> >
> > This has been discussed already, and the new section was created/allowed.
>
> It's not very useful if http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science
> does not exist. I'll start moving packages of mine when I see
> the section actually listed anywhere.
That was a bug on the web pages, I fixed it now.
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