What about science-devices (Was: Second round (Was: Packages maintained by Debian Science maintainers but missing in tasks files))
Hi
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:00:17PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > I am not sure how to handle my packages best:
> >
> > > source | bin | changed_by
> > > ---------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------
> > > libticables | libticables-dev, libticables2-6, libticables2-dbg | Andreas B. Mundt <andi@debian.org>
> > > libticalcs | libticalcs-dev, libticalcs2-11, libticalcs2-11-dbg | Andreas B. Mundt <andi@debian.org>
> > > libticonv | libticonv-dev, libticonv7, libticonv-dbg | Andreas B. Mundt <andi@debian.org>
> > > libtifiles | libtifiles-dev, libtifiles2-9, libtifiles2-9-dbg | Andreas B. Mundt <andi@debian.org>
> > > tiemu | tiemu | Andreas B. Mundt <andi@debian.org>
> > > tilem | tilem, tilem-data | Andreas B. Mundt <andi@debian.org>
> > > tilp2 | tilp2 | Andreas B. Mundt <andi@debian.org>
> >
> >
> > They are all related to the Texas Instruments calculators, either as
> > emulator or to communicate with the actual device.
> >
> > So they might be useful in many scientific fields, engineering,
> > physics and mathematics fit, but also data acquisition and probably
> > some more.
> >
> > On the other hand, someone really working in those fields uses a much
> > more flexible and convenient PC today. In addition, there has not
> > been much upstream development for quite some time now, and I fear
> > that sooner or later the hardware will disappear, as will the
> > software.
> >
> > We could add the packages to quite a lot of tasks or create a new
> > task, perhaps like "scientific-tools" or "scientific-devices".
>
> I think somehow into the direction of science-devices but I'm not yet
> happy with this name. I think devices could also be some electron
> microscopes, cyclotrons etc. On the other hand science-tools usually
> sounds like software tools to my personal perception.
After having detected the package
expeyes
by chance (it is not maintained by Debian Science team but would also
fit into science-devices to some extend.
Opinions? More suggestions?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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