[Pkg-electronics-devel] Categorising / taking over liblxi and lxi-tools (Was: Hint regarding Blends metapackages)

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 10:42:10AM -0800, Dima Kogan wrote:
> Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> writes:
> 
> > I'm currently busy categorising packages of Debian Science and stumbled
> > upon liblxi and lxi-tools.  From the description it sounds like it
> > would fit into Debian Electronics Blend.  Could you (or somebody else)
> > imagine in what task?
> 
> Hi. This is a library to talk to some electronics that a scientist could
> use to get their data. So it could live in any
> electronics/engineering/science component. I think I put it into
> Debian-science, but Debian-electronics would have been reasonable too.
> Is this what you were asking?

Well, you indirectly answered my question.  I did the following change
to the Debian Science tasks:

$ git diff *
diff --git a/tasks/dataacquisition b/tasks/dataacquisition
index cb26f07..44df11c 100644
--- a/tasks/dataacquisition
+++ b/tasks/dataacquisition
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ Recommends: clickhouse-tools
 
 Recommends: csvkit
 
+Recommends: lxi-tools
+
 Recommends: python-visa
 Homepage: http://pyvisa.sourceforge.net/
 License: MIT
diff --git a/tasks/dataacquisition-dev b/tasks/dataacquisition-dev
index 46df3b0..b938803 100644
--- a/tasks/dataacquisition-dev
+++ b/tasks/dataacquisition-dev
@@ -26,3 +26,5 @@ Recommends: python3-aws-xray-sdk
 Recommends: python3-csvkit
 
 Recommends: python3-pymeasure
+
+Recommends: liblxi-dev
diff --git a/tasks/engineering b/tasks/engineering
index ca0dc83..3f8390a 100644
--- a/tasks/engineering
+++ b/tasks/engineering
@@ -165,3 +165,5 @@ Why: parametric 2d/3d CAD program
 Recommends: openmeca
 
 Recommends: python-admesh | python3-admesh
+
+Recommends: lxi-tools
diff --git a/tasks/engineering-dev b/tasks/engineering-dev
index 42837a3..7487320 100644
--- a/tasks/engineering-dev
+++ b/tasks/engineering-dev
@@ -104,3 +104,5 @@ Recommends: libgismo-dev
 Recommends: python3-pygalmesh
 
 Recommends: python3-fluids
+
+Recommends: liblxi-dev


I do not mind in what team the package is maintained but we should try
to achieve that we are advertising the interesting packages in the
relevant work fields to make sure users will find the stuff they are
interested in.

Thanks for you quick response

       Andreas. 

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