Re: Second round (Was: Packages maintained by Debian Science maintainers but missing in tasks files)

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Julien and others who also tickmarked "no idea",

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 06:25:01PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 18:17:38 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 
> >   [x] I have no idea what this whole tasks stuff is about and
> >       what I'm expected to do.

sorry for my wrong assumption that the debian-science package is known
to all people maintaining packages in the team.  It is part of the
Blends framework[1].  As I wrote here some weeks ago I moved the source
from SVN to Git and would like to upload a new version in a timely
manner to reflect this move in Vcs fields.  The source creates some
metapackages according to so called tasks which should contain
dependencies to all those packages created by the Debian Science team,
which fit into the task.

To get an overview about all the tasks you can have a look at the tasks
pages of the so called Blends web sentinel which you can see here:

    http://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/

The single pages reflect exactly the packages which are in the
dependencies of the (future!) metapackages since the current
status of the Git repository is rendered.

So far for the explanation.  What I now want to know from the
maintainers of Debian Science packages which are not yet contained in
the tasks.  The simplest way to accomplish this would be if you just
say

  my package foo fits into task bar (and baz - some packages might
  fit into more than one task)

If you are a DD or a member of the Blends team on alioth you can
simply `debcheckout debian-science` and edit the files in tasks/.
A single

  Depends: foo

or

  Suggests: foo

is sufficient - you have a plenty of examples.

If you are realising that there is no fitting task and we might need
a new task please discuss this here on the list.

In case your package is just a predependency you packaged for some other
scientific package please simply tell me so and I will exclude it from
my check.

I hope this is a sufficient explanation.  Feel free to ask for more
clarification if needed.

Thanks for your cooperation

     Andreas.

[1] http://blends.debian.org/blends/

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