Bug#734316: ITP: gap-float -- multi-precision floating-point computation for GAP

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Hi Jerome,

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 11:09:18AM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > I guess you want to maintain this package in Debian Science team and
> > thus I'll forward the ITP to the list.  I have also proactively added
> > the package to the mathematics task which will let the package show up
> > once it is in Debian Science VCS.
> 
> It is a Debian package for a GAP package, as such it must be
> where GAP stands. There is a potential issue here, I guess:
> there are a lot of GAP packages, more or less small:
> may a sub-project be opened ?

I think a specific sub-project might be a bit overkill here.  However,
it might sense to create a metapackage gap-all (or whatever name sounds
apropriate) which Depends from all such gap-* packages and contains a
list with short descriptions in its long description.  However, as long
as no such metapackage is created I do not see a real problem in listing
all gap-* packages in the mathematics task (at least from my naive point
since I'm not a specific mathematics user). 

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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