Hi,
I recently submitted the ITP below. I would like to put the
prospective package on Alioth (under git) and I was wondering if the
best would be to have it co-maintained by the Debian Science team
(and myself as Uploader).
By the way, I will need a sponsor for this package once it's ready.
I have been Debian Maintainer for a few years already and I maintain
(alone) a bunch of science related packages (yorick*), which would
also benefit from Alioth hosting, perhaps in the Debian Science
Repository.
It is not clear to me whether it makes sense to "co-maintain" within
Debian Science those packages, which, in the end, I will presumably
always maintain myself.
Best regards, Thibaut.
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Package: wnpp
Owner: Thibaut Paumard <paumard@users.sourceforge.net>
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : gyoto
Version : 1.0 (coming soon)
Upstream Author : Thibaut Paumard <paumard@users.sourceforge.net>,
Frederic Vincent at obspm fr
* URL : http://gyoto.obspm.fr
* License : GPL-3+
Programming Lang: C++
Description : General relativistic geodesic integration and ray-tracing
Gyoto aims at providing a framework for computing orbits and ray-traced
images in General relativity. It consists in a shared library
(libgyoto0/libgyoto0-dev), utility programs (in the gyoto package), and
a plug-in for the Yorick programing language (in yorick-gyoto). With it
you can basically:
- compute the trajectory of a body in the vicinity of a compact object
(e.g. a black hole);
- compute the image of an astronomical source (a star, an accretion
disk...) in the vicinity of a compact object (such images are affected
by strong gravitational lensing effects).
This source package would thus produce the following binary packages:
libgyoto0: relativistic geodesic integration and ray-tracing
libgyoto0-dev: development files for libgyoto
gyoto: General relativistic ray-tracing
yorick-gyoto: General relativistic geodesic integration for the Yorick language
gyoto-doc: documentation for the Gyoto library
I am interested in maintaining this package because:
1- I am one of the primary upstream authors and I want Gyoto to be
actually usable and used;
2- there is no alternative in the Debian archive. Actually, Gyoto is the
first relativistic ray-tracer to be publicly available, not to mention
open source.
Best regards, Thibaut.
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* Tel: +33 1 45 07 75 45 | Observatoire de Paris - Section de Meudon *
* Fax: +33 1 45 07 79 17 | 5, Place Jules Janssen *
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