Re: debian-science repository structure
On Sun, 18 May 2008, David Bremner wrote:
At the moment I am preoccupied with deciding how to best transition
my quilt based packages to git. Of course keeping using quilt is an
option.
Uhm, I hope so. I really hope that using quilt _and_ git is no
contradiction.
I think that tasks sound like a reasonable primary format for the
metadata. One can generate static web pages (I guess debian-med
already has tools to do this).
Yes and it is currently perfectly possible for Debian Science
without touching debian-science VCS because it is completely based
on the meta packages source.
I think it should be possible to
generate mr configurations, or git superprojects automagically from
the tasks files as well. I guess we need to include appropriate
VCS-git and VCS-browser fields in the tasks files.
For what use?
I would be curious
to know what a use case for "check out all of the physics packages"
would be.
Well, probably this is some kind of crook because most probably there
is no real physicist who needs all packages related to physics on his
workstation. The same is true for the other sciences. You would need
more fine grained packages for special tasks in physics (and others).
If you want to realise this you have to start a Debian Phyiscs CDD -
but nobody volunteered to do this so far as I know. So I think no
real harm is done if we provide at least an option for phyiscists to
quickly install all the software that might be interesting for them
(and ignore what is not interesting) or have the nice effect to list
everything what we have for physicists at
http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/physics.php
as long there is no Debian Physics realised. It is about users who
need some help. Users who really know what they want are free to
ignore this service.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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