Re: Please categorise your packages for the Debian Science metapackages: fenics/dolfin
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-01-05 at 14:13 +0100, Johannes Ring wrote:
>> 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.
>
> No worries, thanks Johannes. We'll keep the fenics metapackage.
>
> In regards to Andreas' task package, is there any sense putting in two
> references, one for dolfin and one for fenics?
>
> It makes sense to me to just provide one. In that case I'd say the
> fenics package is the one to list (in the Debian mathematics task),
> grabbing the whole set of fenics components.
Yes, the fenics package is the one we recommend our users to install.
In the FEniCS PPA on Launchpad, the fenics meta package also includes
mshr.
Johannes
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