Hi Wookey, since you are just maintaining several packages in Debian Science I assume you will do so with this package as well. I'm just forwarding the ITP to the list.
Kind regards Andreas. On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 03:45:32AM +0000, Wookey wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> > > * Package name : jscience > Version : 4.3.1 > Upstream Author : 2007 JScience (http://jscience.org/) > * URL : http://jscience.org/ > * License : JScience > Programming Lang: Java > Description : Java science library (algebra, matrices, physical models) > > JScience library provides a comprehensive Java library for the > scientific community. It contains the following modules: > . > * Units of Measurement services. > * A coordinates module compliant with OGC/ISO specifications > for the development and deployment of geographic applications. > * A rigourous mapping of mathematical structures (e.g. Group, > Ring, Field, VectorSpace ) to Java interfaces. > * A linear algebra module, which includes a first parameterized > matrix class capable of resolving linear system of equations > involving any kind of elements. > * A functions module for symbolic calculations and analysis. > * Support for exact or arbitrary precision measurements > * Support for Standard, Relativistic, High-Energy, Quantum and > Natural physical models. > * A monetary module for precision-guaranteed calculations and > currencies conversions. > > I am packaging this because it is needed by the current release of > caveconverter for calculating hulls. And it seems like quite a > generally useful java package. > > This package depends recursively(!) on geoapi (http://www.geoapi.org/ > ). Presumably that recursiveness is not a good enough reason to just > put geoapi in the same source package, and build them together, so I > should file an ITP for that too (and ideally put in staged builds so > they can easily be built)? > > There was #555524 filed about this in 2009, and closed in 2011. > > -- http://fam-tille.de