Bug#488962: debian-science: New category engineering

Adam C Powell IV hazelsct at debian.org
Wed Jul 2 13:58:32 UTC 2008


[Sorry, this should have gone to the bug as well.]

On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 14:49 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> 
> > Science/Engineering is a subcategory in both the menu and documentation
> > systems for Debian.  It should also be a subcategory in this package.
> >
> > Preliminary list: qcad, opencascade, gmsh, tochnog, gerris, libmesh,
> > netgen, varkon, pythoncad.
> 
> Fixed in SVN.
> I propose to upload soon to possibly hit Lenny with these packages.
> The newly added package might delay things a little bit ...

Thank you very much.  As you say, hopefully this will clear the NEW
queue in time for lenny!

> > In the future (currently WNPP): Aster, FreeCAD, Impact, Salomé, brlcad.
> 
> This does not affect the resulting package as long as these packages
> are not available.  I moved saloma and brlcad from physics to engineering
> but please provide more infor for the remaining ones (preferably by
> commiting it to SVN yourself ...)

Indeed!
      * I put an enormous amount of work into a package for Salomé 3.2.6
        which worked in January but doesn't quite now.  3.2.9 has been
        out in binary form for months with no source code release.  When
        it is released, I will port my package and upload.
      * I have packaged much of Aster, but it's not quite usable yet,
        and they are about to release a new version.
      * FreeCAD has its own package, but it puts everything in /opt.
        Teemu Ikonen mentioned on debian-science that he would upload a
        package to contrib, presumably one which follows the FHS.
      * Impact should not be hard, I'll try to get to it soon.  Thing
        is, it's in Java, and the Sun JRE runs it three times faster
        than GIJ...
      * BRL-CAD has been in the works for some time.  Unfortunately, it
        depends on an unreleased version of [incr tcl], which will
        probably keep it out indefinitely.
And there are more to come...

Cheers,
-Adam
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