[Debichem-devel] Bug#732520: abinit: New upstream version, package unmaintained

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Ondřej,

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 09:46:47AM +0530, Ondřej Čertík wrote:
> >
> > What do you think about taking over abinit into DebiChem?  I'd volunteer
> > to help in the migration step if any help is needed.
> 
> Thanks Andreas for the initiative.
> I hope to get my NM process finished soon, so I should be able to help more.

I think any effort in abinit could be independent from your NM status.  I'm
running a sponsoring effort at

  https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends/SoB

and abinit fits perfectly.

> Is pkg-scicomp dead?

Yes it is.  It was basically merged into Debian Science.  You can not
register on alioth any more (you can not even see the alioth page of the
project).  Yesterday I was inspecting the SVN for some stuff which is
worth keeping.  Abinit was not in VCS anyway (which is bad).

> I haven't been following it lately. I would definitely
> wait for Christophe (CCed) from pkg-scicomp to see what he thinks.

As far as I have understood Christophe in previous postings he is fine
with the move from pkg-scicomp to other projects.  The discussion about
this on the related mailing list is about two years old.

> But as far as I am concerned, I'll be happy for abinit to be maintained
> as part of any other group which is active.

It would be nice to have some statement of DebiChem team members whether
to use SVN or Git (or whether they would prefer to not have it in
DebiChem but rather Debian Science).  Both would be fine for me.

Kind regards

      Andreas.


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