Re: Please categorise your packages for the Debian Science metapackages: fenics/dolfin
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:04 AM, Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> wrote:
> dolfin is the front-end of the FENiCS system, and I think the fenics
> package is now deprecated. Johannes, did you intend to update the
> fenics Debian metapackage, or should we remove it from the Debian
> archive?
I have already updated the fenics meta package, but was waiting for
dolfin to be available in unstable before uploading. Now that dolfin
has been uploaded (thanks Drew!), I will go ahead and upload the
fenics meta package.
>We could handle it in the dolfin source package to save
> maintenance efforts if you want to keep it.
I prefer to keep it as it is if that is okay.
Johannes
> Whether we want the fenics package removed or not, I guess there's no
> need to have the two entries in the task list for fenics/dolfin. Once
> we're decided I can log in to the tasks server to make the edits to
> keep one entry.
>
> Drew
>
> On Wed, 2017-01-04 at 15:50 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> as in every release cycle I'm trying to verify that every package
>> maintained in Debian Science team is properly categorised in our
>> Blends
>> tasks. If a package is just a predependency for some other
>> scientific
>> software I can add it to a blacklist of packages that should not show
>> up in the Debian Science metapackages explicitly. I have uploaded
>> the
>> list of not yet categorised (not yet blacklisted) source packages to
>>
>> http://blends.debian.net/tmp/debian-science.txt
>>
>> The list also contains the latest uploader - so simply seek for your
>> name - everybody in CC is mentioned at least once in the list and
>> should
>> definitely have a look. If other readers here feel competent to
>> classify a package for one or more (!) tasks in our task list
>>
>> https://blends.debian.org/science/tasks/
>>
>> evary suggestion is welcome.
>>
>> To add a binary (!) package to a task you can simply
>>
>> debcheckout -u your_alioth_login debian-science
>> cd debian-science/tasks
>>
>> and edit the task in question. Members of the Debian Pure Blends
>> team
>> as well as any DD (ACLs are set but I have heard this does not work
>> reliably) have commit permissions. I'm also fine if you debcheckout
>> anonymously and send me `git format-patch` formated changes or just
>> answer here to this mail.
>>
>> If you are not sure whether a package belongs to a task or not feel
>> free to discuss this here.
>>
>> Kind regards and thanks for your cooperation
>>
>> Andreas.
>>
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