Re: Debian Math Team
Andrius Merkys <merkys@debian.org> writes:
> problem: How would we define what is math software? What would be done
> with interdisciplinary software? For example, I maintain two packages,
> spglib and voronota, which deal with crystallography (chemistry?), but
> employ heavy math. Should I put them in debichem or debian-math? I
> believe the classification problem cannot be solved in general way,
> leading to looking for more "pragmatic" classification.
I sometimes have this problem for Debian Astro packages, and then I
decide on whether the package is (intended to be) useful outside of
astronomy. Sometimes this is difficult; f.e. I just uploaded
"mpl-animators" which does animations with matplotlib, but this depends
on astropy for many functions which hints me that the authors focus on
astronomy (and not general) usage.
>> By this logic, we could push entire debian-med python packages into
>> python-team, java packages into java-team and so on...
I really think this is a bit problematic; IMO the problem here is mainly
that we imply disjunct teams.
Why can't a Python math package be maintained by both the Python and the
math team?
Maintainer: Debian Math Team <...>
Uploaders: Debian Python Team <...>, me <olebole...>
This would set a primary team (and the place in the Salsa directory
structure), but also allow the Python team to exercise required changes
as team upload.
Probably policies and scripts should be adjusted to make use of
this. And "somehow" the Salsa permissions should match this.
Best
Ole
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