Re: Please categorise your packages for the Debian Science metapackages: fenics/dolfin
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-01-05 at 18:11 +0100, Johannes Ring wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 6:03 PM, Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>
> Thanks, I'll pass that recommendation on to Andreas.
>
> In our fenics package, we could set
> Suggests: mshr
> (until CGAL liberation is ready in the mshr package)
>
> That won't get in the way of anything, but it will signal that we do
> have mshr available for Debian (in a sense). Users can easily build it
> from the git repo.
Yes, that is a good idea.
Johannes
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