[Debichem-devel] Bug#602126: ITP: python-ase -- Atomic Simulation Environment

[Yann Pouillon]

Hi,

Le Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:20:03 +0100 (CET),
Ask Hjorth Larsen <askhl at fysik.dtu.dk> a écrit :

> I guess a few things (like the fact that this should be for Debian
> and not for Ubuntu) have to be changed, but otherwise things should
> be in place with the possible exception of some policy issues.

I'm also toying with a Launchpad PPA for now:

  https://launchpad.net/~pouillon/+archive/etsf-ubuntu

This is more convenient for us at present, as Ubuntu Lucid is the most
widespread distribution among the ETSF (http://etsf.eu/) developers. The
current objective is to cover all dependencies of Abinit, in order to
package its upcoming 6.6.1 version, refining the splitting of the binary
packages at the same time.

I'm currently working on the following packages: atompaw, wannier90,
libfox95. Damien Caliste and Sylvestre Ledru have already made - or are
in the course of making - some of the other packages available for
Debian: etsf-io, libxc, bigdft. I don't have any sponsor yet for my
packages.

> With regards to maintenance, I'm not entirely clear on how we were
> going to do things in the first place.  Yann?

As far as maintenance is concerned, I'm packaging the tools and
libraries which require the biggest efforts in terms of upgrading the
build systems and sometimes parts of the source code. In each case, I'm
working in close contact with upstream developers, and I can already
report a very successful collaboration for AtomPAW. For the rest, I
fully trust the persons who volunteered to create and maintain a
package. My only concern is to keep a good coordination among the
ongoing efforts, since we have long-term objectives in the ETSF.

I've been in contact with Andreas Tille for nearly 2 years, who
initially suggested me to create and maintain a metapackage for Debian
Science. After having discussed a few times of overlaps between
metapackages with him and other people, I don't see any problem in
DebiChem including some of the nanoscale-physics* packages in their
own metapackages.

Any help is of course very welcome as well. Just keep me in touch in
order to avoid duplicate efforts.

Best regards,

Yann.

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