Packaging Software

[Robert Current <current@plains.nodak.edu>]

Hi,

	Can one of the Debian developers (or anyone willing to help) please
contact Herng-Jeng Jou at <hjjou@KachinaTech.COM> about packaging.  It
is my understanding that there was an intent to package some of the
software he has organized at SAL (Scientific Applications for LINUX at
http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/).

	He is interested in helping organize, and it should be very beneficial
to the LINUX community if it happens.  He needs help with the task, and
anyone willing to lend a hand in the work would be greatly appreciated.

	I understand this is a huge task that needs discussion first, but
Herng-Jeng Jou would like to be contacted soon just to find out the
potential reality of approaching this huge task, and what ideas are
being put forward at this point.

Herng-Jeng Jou wrote:
> 
> Yes, we really need to centralize the packaging stuff.
> Even some non-GPL, but free or public-domain, software, should also be
> packaged, like some numerical software package (SLATEC, ODEPACK, eg) in
> netlib.  As SAL covers quite a wide area of applications, it might be good
> idea to have several section leaders help organizing (and testing) the
> packaging.
> Whom should I contact regarding to their plan of Debian packaging?
> Personally, I don't have a strong preference toward which packaging
> schemes, but a unified way is certainly better than multiple ways.
> 
> Jou


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