Bug#659641: ITP: python-quantities -- Support for physical quantities with units, based on numpy

Da: Michael Hanke <mih@debian.org>
A: Andrea Palazzi <palazziandrea@yahoo.it>; 659641@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Debian Science List <debian-science@lists.debian.org>
Inviato: Lunedì 13 Febbraio 2012 9:22
Oggetto: Bug#659641: ITP: python-quantities -- Support for physical quantities with units, based on numpy

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 07:49:04PM +0100, Andrea Palazzi wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Andrea Palazzi <palazziandrea@yahoo.it>
> Version : 0.10.1
> Upstream Author : Darren Dale <dsdale24@gmail.com>
> * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/quantities
> * License : BSD
> Programming Lang: Python
> Description : Support for physical quantities with units, based on numpy

I have a packaging draft for this one, which I'm happy to contribute --
in case you haven't done it yourself yet (it is fairly straightforward).
The reaon I haven't pushed this package yet is that the unittests do
not pass and upstream didn't work on this code for a while. I filed
some bug reports, but nothing happened yet.

In any case, this package is needed as a dependency for a core pyton
library for electrophysiology data handling. Therefore I appreciate that
you are taking care of quantities.

Do you have an anticipated timeframe for an initial upload? Are you
aiming at team-maintenance within Debian Science?

Hi,

the package is already done, it was pretty easy with py2dsc; what i want to do now is:

- check the created package

- create a git repository

- add a copyright file: there's no copyright in the original .tar.gz, the only copyright claim that I've found is at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/quantities; I've asked upstream to add an explicit copyright file, but had no answer up to today. BTW, can I write the copyright file only based on the page on python.org

I would also appreciate some help on creating the git repository, I'm reading http://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/Git but some things aren't completely clear to me - e.g. will this be a "collab maint project" ? the project is debian-science ? Or what ?

I think that by the end of this week I could upload a first and reasonabily good version of the package to alioth.

Bye
Andrea