Torrance, Douglas <dtorrance@piedmont.edu> writes: > On Thu 04 Nov 2021 12:06:47 PM EDT, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote: >>> All mathematics >>> packages? How do the categories work, and what conditions warrant a new >>> category? >> >> You need to ask the mathematicians what might be sensible tasks. >> The tasks mathematics and mathematics-dev are definitely non-sense >> but it was the easiest way for me to kickstart something. > > One possible source of task categories is to use the American Mathematical > Society's Mathematics Subject Classification [1]. This is already used to > classify academic papers, and the problem of classifying mathematics > software is certainly similar. > > Doug > > [1] https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/msc/msc2020.html I think that's a really good idea! That classification – while seemingly complicated to outsiders – is probably quite well-known to anyone interested in the mathematics Debian tasks in the first place. I will try to categorize the few packages I maintain myself, and issue a merge request so that there are examples for people to go by. Best, Gard
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