muzzle wrote: > so what happened to this wonderful idea? > > I could only find this wiki page > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/UnofficialRepository > > did you give up? > > Hope to hear from you, > > Emme Well, as far as I know the thread sort of died inconclusively. I personally don't have anywhere to host such a repository. (My post-doc is up in April so I will probably lose the use of the machine currently hosting my Geant4 .debs.) Not to put words in his mouth, but I understand that Brett Viren has space, but (as a national lab employee) is highly sensitive to the need for legal vetting of everything distributed from his web space. And some of the things that a debian-science effort might want to distribute (Lund Monte Carlo packages, CLHEP, etc.) don't currently have a clear legal status. I guess the basic issue for a science-specific repo is that anything DFSG-free can be packaged in Debian proper (eventually... look how long it's taking us to get ROOT in :-/ ), anything non-free but distributable with a proper license can go in Debian non-free, and no one wants to take the risk of hosting debs that have unclear legal status. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544
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