Re: Crystallography packages
Hi Jerome,
On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 09:24:48PM +0100, Jerome Kieffer wrote:
> And happy new year!
Same to you!
> > when trying my luck with putting Debian Science packages into tasks (see
> > [1]) I stumbled upon python-fabio. This was by chance because I was
> > seeking for
> >
> > apt-cache search cbf
> >
> > since I wanted to make some sense of cbflib-bin which deals with CBF
> > files (which I do not know personally). It seems both packages are
> > about crystallography and I would be really happy if the maintainers (in
> > CC would come up with some reasonable suggestion in what task(s) the
> > packages should be mentioned.
>
> I am the upstream maintainer of FabIO (occasionally developer but the
> library is mature). I am doing a bit of debian packaging mainly for
> ESRF (my employer) purposes, because we need it.
I remember very well you and your employer thanks to your great hosting
at the ESFR workshop! :-)
> CBF is one of many format supported bu FabIO and the CBF implementation
> of FabIO is not based on libCBF but on my own code (starting from the spec
> of CBF, availble from IUCr).
Thanks for the clarification.
> > Moreover I noticed that python-fabio is not yet maintained by any
> > team and in a repository outside of anonscm.debian.org. Would you
> > consider moving this package under team maintenance?
>
> This repository has been set-up for ESRF needs to provide debian
> binaries for squeeze (and soon wheezy). I don't mind moving the
> repository if I am not enforced to break the compatibility with squeeze.
I'd suggest to drop a note about this in the README.source file. We
dealt with some requirement like this in Debian Med team where I tended
to upgrade debhelper compatibility level to 9 (which is in squeeze
backports if I remember correctly and thus should be used anyway since
it implements dh_auto_tests which is probably something you also want at
ESFR).
> The other issue is purely technical: how do I create an account there ?
You should register a user at
http://alioth.debian.org
(and remember that it gets the appendix '-guest' to the user name you
are choosing). Than ask for adding <your-name>-guest to the Debian
Science team. The procedure is explained in Debian Science policy[1]
which you probably want to browse - it might not harm to comply with
this for all your packages at ESRF.
Thanks for your contribution
Andreas.
[1] http://debian-science.alioth.debian.org/debian-science-policy.html#id227506
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