Re: Packages maintained by Debian Science maintainers but missing in tasks files

2013-12-12 Thread Scott Howard
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: Hi, before uploading a new version of Debian Science packages I usually verify what packages are maintained by debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org but are not mentioned in any tasks file. This is usually a

Re: RFS: nfft -- Library for computing Non-uniform Fast Fourier Transforms

2013-10-24 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: d/*.install: The files are starting by a line #!/usr/bin/dh-exec I admit I have never seen this before even if I suspect this might be somewhere in the docs which you have definitely read in a way more

Re: How do I get started?

2012-03-13 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Yves S. Garret yoursurrogate...@gmail.com wrote: If you guys think I'm going about the wrong way, what would you suggest be a better one? Nanotechnology is a huge field that can be approached from nearly any science and engineering discipline. Biology, physics,

Re: Bug#656565: ITP: openstereograph -- Open source stereograph (Magic Eye) generator for desktops

2012-01-20 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: Hi Scott, you are mentioning Debian Science maintenance.  What metapackage would you suggest for OpenStereograph (and where to put the old stereograph into in case it will not be removed).  Any other similar packages we

Re: Proposal: Debian Science mailing lists

2011-06-16 Thread Scott Howard
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:15:13AM +0200, Manuel Prinz wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 08.06.2011, 10:06 +0200 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: == Proposal == I would like to propose the following: * move all packaging related

Re: Scientific software packaging

2011-05-17 Thread Scott Howard
Hi, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Gürkan Sengün gur...@phys.ethz.ch wrote: Reduce, http://www.reduce-algebra.com/obtaining.htm requested but not packaged [1] LHAPDF, http://projects.hepforge.org/lhapdf/ (used to be in Debian some time ago) Removed for being orphaned and buggy [2]

Re: Removal of QCAD

2011-04-26 Thread Scott Howard
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Brett Viren b...@bnl.gov wrote: Thomas Weber twe...@debian.org writes: Speaking as an occasional user: please provide a transitional package. FWIW, I echo this desire.  I've transitioned from qcad to librecad and confirm it is an improvement as well as a

Re: Qt3 removal rational

2011-02-12 Thread Scott Howard
On 02/10/2011 09:10 PM, Michael Banck wrote: If qt3 is really popular with scientific apps, which presumably are slow moving targets which are not esaily /quickly ported to qt4, it should be enough motivation for the people who need qt3 to take on the maintenance, so no need to burden

Re: New statistics about upload activity of the team

2011-01-24 Thread Scott Howard
Hello, On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:30 AM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: Hi, at DebConf9 I was discussing with some people that graphing the activity of postings to the mailing list which is showed at the entry pages of the web senitinel[1] are not that relevant as the actual uploads

Re: New statistics about upload activity of the team

2011-01-24 Thread Scott Howard
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:24:26AM -0500, Scott Howard wrote: It would be interesting to see a single number representing the health of a team over time. I propose using something like the Hirsch index [1] (an index which

Re: Need help/advice with NIST dataplot

2010-12-17 Thread Scott Howard
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Aaron M. Ucko a...@alum.mit.edu wrote: Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net writes: First, maybe I don't need to compile from source --- Is there a package for this in Debian? What is the package name? I see no sign of any existing package either, but it

RFS: libqtexengine1 (dependency for new versions of qtiplot)

2010-11-28 Thread Scott Howard
regards Scott Howard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktiml114hxruyv6wnp5hmoxiev8e1gyfrlwgk_...@mail.gmail.com

RFS: qcad (updated package)

2010-07-17 Thread Scott Howard
://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/qcad - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/q/qcad/qcad_2.0.5.0-1+090318-4.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Scott