Dear list, Currently there are a fair number of repositories of science-related unofficial Debian packages out there. I've been thinking that it might make sense to consolidate them into a single site. This would have several advantages: - Permit convenient one-stop "shopping" for unofficial scientific .debs with only one sources.list entry (well, two counting deb-src) - Better PR for the unofficial .debs. Instead of a dozen different unofficial repositories, now only one would need to be publicized, perhaps with an obvious name like "www.debian-science.org". - Possibility of more complicated dependency graphs between unofficial packages - Possibility (someday) to set up a buildd network that can autobuild all the packages for various architectures - Testbed for packages that ultimately can enter Debian proper - Convenient unofficial source for packages that can't enter Debian, for whatever reason, as long as the maintainers had permission to distribute them I was talking to Brett Viren about the possibility to host CLHEP and GEANT4 .debs at his site, maintaining a repository for unofficial physics related packages. So the question is, would other Debian Scientists, in fields other than physics, also be interested in using this repository? The idea needs a lot of setup so probably not much will happen immediately; this email is mainly to gauge the amount of interest. 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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