[Debichem-devel] [Pkg-scicomp-devel] Package categories

[Christophe Prud'homme]

>> At the same time, I am wondering why abinit got uploaded to pkg-scicomp
>> without consulting the debichem team first?
simple and honest answer:  we didn't know about debichem. the person
who brought abinit to pkg-scicomp, Ondrej Certik, does a superb job
and he is certainly very helpful in bringing good scientific software
to Debian. I suggest that you contact him and ask him whether abinit
maintenance
should be done in debichem.

> I'm a real fan of communication - so please be nice to each other and
> at least drop some notes to potentially interested groups ...
agreed

>> It seems pointless to have competing packaging groups around,
>
> Yes.  As long as a package is solidly maintained there is no reason
> to blame anybody.
>
>> I thought pkg-scicomp was mainly packaging software which
>> is of general interest to scientific computing (like lapack, blas,
>> etc.), not specific applications for which other packaging groups (and
>> debian-science more generally) are already available.
>
> I admit that for me the role of pkg-scicomp is somehow unclear and the
> communication is not really the best.  That's why we did not waited for
> the pkg-scicomp team to push the Debian Science effort but did this on
> our own and hope for a reasonable cooperation.
the communication problem is certainly my fault. I have an extremely
busy life and following the various
 discussions is close to impossible. At best I can read some of the
emails and sometimes answer or give
 a quick heads up like now. At the moment I concentrate mainly on
getting some important (at least to me )
packages done.
I hope to find some time in August to get up to date as to Debian science
and the various things being done there. After that I will try to
think about what could be done between Debian
Science and pkg-scicomp and the possible actions to take (for example
merge pkg-scicomp into Debian Science)

Best regards
C.