Re: [Pkg-scicomp-devel] joining debian-science and pkg-scicomp

[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru@inria.fr>]

Hello,

> Hi,
> 
> I joined the Debian Scientific Computation Team
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianScientificComputingTeam
> 
> about half a year ago, because I thought that is the scientific team in Debian.
Scientific computing software != Scientific software
Debian Science is much more general.

We exchanged a few emails with Christophe Prud'homme about that before
starting the Debian-Science team and we arrived to the conclusion that
both teams are important and when overlaps happen (like the one on
Atlas), we should keep an open mind where a package should go.

[...]
> 
> Here is a list of packages maintained by the Debian Science:
> 
> http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org

> is that it, or are there some more packages?
> 
More package are coming like Worldwind, Scilab, libmatio (for me) and other are managed under the git and svn vcs...

> I am asking to find out where is the best place to maintain the
> atlas3.8 packages. It seems to me the Debian Scientific Computation
> Team is more suited for that, given
> that it already maintains many similar packages.
I agree with you. Blas/Lapack & Atlas are core packages of numerical
computing software and should be maintained actively by people coming
from this "world".

Sylvestre