Re: Torque in Debian?

2009-12-27 Thread Steffen Moeller
Jordi Mallach wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 07:58:29PM +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote: ... > Ok. When I come back from vacation, I'll try to merge all my changes to the > ubuntu branch in trunk, if they still apply. Many thanks! > Again, > I have looked at the licence and

Re: Torque in Debian?

2009-12-21 Thread Steffen Moeller
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 19/12/09 at 16:30 +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: >> In any case, back when I started packaging torque and >> then joined the common effort, I looked torque's licence and couldn't >> find anything that could make it plain non-free. If my opinion counts, >> we should make our

Re: Torque in Debian?

2009-12-19 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, Jordi Mallach wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:50:21PM +0100, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: >> Oh, that. Yes it is a complicated situation, which doesn't get any >> better by the fact that the Torque maintainers don't give a d*mn >> about license issues. AFAIK several people have emailed them

Re: Torque in Debian?

2009-12-11 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: >> I seem to recall that someone once mentioned packaging of Morten's Torque >> packages from Ubuntu. I also seem to recall Steffen saying that he was in >> contact with Morten. Based on quick search of my mail folder I can't >> find >> traces of either. Could so

Re: pkg-escience [Was: Re: Torque in Debian?]

2009-12-11 Thread Steffen Moeller
Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Le jeudi 10 décembre 2009 à 16:50 +0100, Morten Kjeldgaard a écrit : >> Hi Dirk, >> >>> I seem to recall that someone once mentioned packaging of Morten's >>> Torque >>> packages from Ubuntu. I also seem to recall Steffen saying that he >>> was in >>> contact with Morte

Grid Computing for and with CERN in Oslo, Norway

2009-11-16 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, this Job is not Debian-centric, but Debian-compatible, with many collaborators using Debian or Ubuntu. The focus is on high energy physics (HEP): http://www.admin.uio.no/opa/ledige-stillinger/2009/vitenskapelige/postdocfellowresearcherPhysics-2009-16425.html I know the group to be good an

Re: GROMACS version

2009-09-25 Thread Steffen Moeller
Nicholas Breen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:07:55AM +0200, Manuel Prinz wrote: >> However, Sylvestre already pointed you to backports.org. This is a way >> to deal with that: Rebuilding packages from Squeeze on Lenny. But you're >> lost again, as not all software is in Backports, and GROMACS

Re: hi team!

2009-09-25 Thread Steffen Moeller
Adam C Powell IV wrote: > On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 10:31 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: >> Hello Andrea, >> >> Le vendredi 25 septembre 2009 à 08:01 +, Andrea Neroni a écrit : >>> Hi, >>> I'm graduated in physic and actually a student for the Master of >>> science, Debian user from some years. Rece

Re: Backports of scientific packages (Was: Re: GROMACS version)

2009-09-25 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, Manuel Prinz wrote: > Am Freitag, den 25.09.2009, 12:23 +0200 schrieb Steffen Moeller: >> Would there be a way to auto-backport packages that are flagged in this >> respect? Similarly to some non-free packages being explicitly allowed to be >> auto-built? Basically a

Re: GROMACS version

2009-09-25 Thread Steffen Moeller
Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Le vendredi 25 septembre 2009 à 11:07 +0200, Manuel Prinz a écrit : >> Hi Francesco! > [...] > >> I also vaguely remember there has been a discussion about some "Debian >> Science Backports" before. This would be a cool thing to have, maybe we >> should pick up that discus

Re: Publication information for tasks pages

2009-09-03 Thread Steffen Moeller
Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 08:43:10AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >> in Debian Med we have started to add publication information to the >> tasks files. > > Nice. > > However, at a quick glance, I only see "Please cite: " entries in the > task overview page, no further refe

Re: RFS: netcdf-ruby, narray-miss-ruby

2009-08-28 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello again, I can help with sponsoring, but not earlier than this weekend. I am also CCing the maintainers of the python-netcdf and netcdf-bin packages, whose opinion I would like to hear prior to an upload. Best, Steffen Youhei SASAKI wrote: > Dear Debian-Science, > > I am looking for a sp

Re: RFS: libnc-dap

2009-08-28 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, they seem to have achieved a merge of their effort with another one, see http://opendap.org/download/nc-dap.html, and suggest the name netcdf, instead. However, we have a netcdf package already in our archive. Please be so kind to work out the differences. From what I read, you explicitly

Re: simple batch queue system

2009-08-21 Thread Steffen Moeller
Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: > OK, so I guess we have hijacked this thread for a discussion of Torque > packaging. Sorry about that! I hope the OP is content with the feedback so > far, and perhaps will try out torque and help debug the packages ;-) > :) > Now I see that Steffen also has submitted th

Re: simple batch queue system

2009-08-20 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hi, Jordi Mallach wrote: > [ Please CC: me on replies, as I'm not subscribed to this list ] please subscribe - it is low traffic. > I've been working on TORQUE packages *from scratch* for a pair of days. > Michael Banck learned about this, and he pointed me at this thread and at > the Ubuntu pac

Re: simple batch queue system?

2009-08-08 Thread Steffen Moeller
Steffen Moeller wrote: > Michael Banck wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 02:35:44AM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: >>> I am now uploading a new version ... [...] > > Upon your initial comment, I had updated torque from free to non-free and > asked for a > remova

Re: simple batch queue system?

2009-08-08 Thread Steffen Moeller
Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 02:35:44AM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: >> I am now uploading a new version ... > > What happened? Torque seems to be no longer in the NEW queue. What happened...I asked upstream who agree to what you say, without really saying

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cran2deb: 1700+ new Debian / R packages

2009-08-06 Thread Steffen Moeller
Salut, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:47:23AM +0200, Steffen Moeller a écrit : >> from the Debian-med perspective I personally am more interested to learn >> about the >> possibility to get BioConductor in. If I recall correctly, the major >>

Re: simple batch queue system?

2009-08-04 Thread Steffen Moeller
Michael Banck wrote: > On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 03:42:22PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: >> Sorry for having lost the original post already, but you might be interested >> in the upload >> of Morten's Ubuntu package (a week ago) for the PBS-descendent Torque in its

Re: simple batch queue system?

2009-08-02 Thread Steffen Moeller
Sorry for having lost the original post already, but you might be interested in the upload of Morten's Ubuntu package (a week ago) for the PBS-descendent Torque in its new upstream version 2.3.7 to the new queue http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/torque_2.3.7+dfsg-1.html . I don't know if it is s

Re: post-inst message for autodock

2009-07-29 Thread Steffen Moeller
Michael Banck wrote: > (CCing -science because I think this applies to all fields of science > and should see wider discussion) > > For -science, the issue is about user registration (usually before > download, or on program startup) which is an important tool for > scientific software authors to

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cran2deb: 1700+ new Debian / R packages

2009-07-28 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, Charles Plessy wrote: >> On 24 July 2009 at 16:22, Andreas Tille wrote: >> | >> | Sure. My way of thinking was that the maintainer of an official Debian >> | package just draws the source from cran2deb, ads a changelog entry and >> | is finished with his work (in an ideal situation). >

Supercoming for Linux distributions BoF at ISC'09 in Hamburg

2009-06-18 Thread Steffen Moeller
Dear all, I am running a BoF session ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_Feather_(computing) ) at the International Supercomputer Conference in Hamburg next week. Certainly I don't mind meeting the one or other reader of this mailing list, but more so I would be interested in topics that

Re: about autodocktools package

2009-05-14 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, Bin Zhang wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Francesco Pietra > wrote: >> Hi: >> Package "autodocktools" for amd6a is only available for sid. As an aid >> to autodock (which is on the amd64 lenny repositories) I tried to >> install it by downloading packages for sid and using dpkg

Re: Grid tasks

2009-03-28 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, Chris Walker wrote: > Martin Quinson writes: >> On the contrary, tags help searching for all of them to compare before >> choosing, with is really welcomed. >> > > It would be great - but the last time I started that discussion[1] it > didn't come to firm conclusions about a way to proce

Re: Grid tasks

2009-03-16 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hi Chris, Chris Walker wrote: > I propose we (Debian-science) create two grid tasks packages: > > Grid-client: This would contain the packages a user workstation needs to > submit jobs to the grid. > > Grid-server: Packages for running a grid cluster. > > The globus packages recently proposed

Re: Grid tasks

2009-03-10 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, Leandro Doctors wrote: > 2009/3/10 Andreas Tille : >> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Manuel Prinz wrote: >>> If those would be globus-specific virtual packages, aren't they best >>> maintained by the globus maintainers and not as a task in Debian >>> Science?! > There is an independent Debain-based d

Re: Grid tasks

2009-03-10 Thread Steffen Moeller
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Chris Walker wrote: > >> Currently the packages are in the new queue. Should I wait until they >> actually reach unstable before creating the task? Are there any other >> obvious candidate packages? > > There is no need to wait until you do not plan to b

Re: RFS: libsvm (bug fixed)

2009-02-28 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 03:27:16PM +0800, Chen Tse Tsai a écrit : >> Dear mentors >> I am looking for sponsorship for my package 'libsvm'. >> It closes the bug #517447. I intend to adopt it since >> I am from the group developing libsvm and we are very >> willing to

Re: [RFC] New task: science-dataacquisition

2008-12-08 Thread Steffen Moeller
Andreas Tille wrote: > Any comments? Any suggestion for further dependencies? qtdmm would be a nice fit. Best, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DebianScience Live

2008-12-01 Thread Steffen Moeller
Chris Walker wrote: > "Mike Chelen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Chris Walker >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is anyone round here working on a science live DVD/USB key system? > > I'm sorry I was too brief here. > >> What about the projects at http://wiki

Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference

2008-10-09 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I have no strong opinion where to put the bibliographic information, and > propose to discuss the different possibilities on debian-devel once we > have brainstormed enough. > > For the format, although I won't stop volunteers to write conversion > scripts, I wou

Re: tasks overview wishlist: Canonical citing reference

2008-10-07 Thread Steffen Moeller
Michael Banck wrote: > One thing I'd like to have added to the nice package overviews at > http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/chemistry.html etc. is a > canonical reference which should be given in scientific papers using > that package. > I agree. Many placed respective indications in

Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Steffen Moeller
Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:05:51 +0200 > Steffen Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I never understood >> though why it was nut just called Special Interest Group (SIG), something >> that >> everyone would grasp immediately. > > If

Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Steffen Moeller
Somehow I get all these emails two to three times ;) I am not against a rename some much, but DIS is no better than CDD, really, so I am rather with Gert and Karsten. Better than DIS may be DUC (pronounced duck or dak) as an acronym for Debian User Community. I never understood though why it was n

Re: RFS: cl-plplot and mcl

2007-12-07 Thread Steffen Moeller
On Thursday 06 December 2007 19:39:11 Philipp Benner wrote: > > I just built it and it looks fine to me. I think I once addresses > > packaging it myself some years back and am glad to see it packaged by you > > now. > > Well, I didn't package it, just adopted it... > > > I'll wait for tonight som

Re: RFS: cl-plplot and mcl

2007-12-06 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hi Philipp, On Sunday 02 December 2007 22:40:59 Philipp Benner wrote: > * Package name: mcl > Version : 1:06-058-1 > Upstream Author : Stijn van Dongen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://micans.org/mcl/ > * License : GPL-2 > Section : math > > The M

Re: RFS: cl-plplot and mcl

2007-12-02 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hi Philipp, I am dragged into Lisp myself and happily take the opportunity to learn about related packaging principles. If there is no default Lisp sponsor around then I would volunteer, but I have no time earlier than Thursday, I am afraid. Cheers, Steffen On Sunday 02 December 2007 21:40:5

Re: package sponsorship request

2007-10-05 Thread Steffen Moeller
ld be in the changelog to summarize the changes. I affirm > that everything I wrote (and debsigned) is honest and accurate to the > best of my knowledge, but it is not so simple necessarily. Cheers, > > -r. > > On 10/5/07, Steffen Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &g

Re: package sponsorship request

2007-10-05 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hi Rudi, you are requesting an adoption, not a sponsoring. Is the source on the svn repository? The problem with sponsoring is that you indicate to take over when the maintainer leaves and you just said so. If you continue maintaining it Michael is not coming up with good reasons why the packag

Re: ROOT 5.16 in unstable?

2007-08-30 Thread Steffen Moeller
On Thursday 30 August 2007 10:32:40 Christian T. Steigies wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:08:33AM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > > I am a DD and we can do this together when I am in Copenhagen for the > > NorduGrid conference > > (http://indico.hep.lu.se/conference

Re: ROOT 5.16 in unstable?

2007-08-30 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hi Christian, I am a DD and we can do this together when I am in Copenhagen for the NorduGrid conference (http://indico.hep.lu.se/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=318) later in September. I am CCing to Anders who is also interested in Debian at your site. Frankly, alone for the immense resources th

Re: Batch systems: Torque, SLURM, other?

2007-05-15 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hallo Manuel, a nice domain name you have. On Tuesday 15 May 2007 13:11:02 Manuel Prinz wrote: > I've to administrate a small cluster and I'm intersted in your opinion > or experience with the resource managers/batch systems you use. > > ATM, there's Torque installed, and I'm not too happy with i

Re: BALLView: new package version

2007-04-19 Thread Steffen Moeller
On Friday 20 April 2007 08:04:52 Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Andreas Moll wrote: > > Well, the only packages that provide fancyheadings are > > tetex-extra and tetex-src. > > If these two packages do not exist, there are further problems with > > building the tutorial's PDF. > > Wha

Re: Thread wikified - Was: Re: Installing the whole set of scientific packages

2007-02-18 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hi, > > > OK, I passed a rough list of the things debated in this thread to > > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScienceClassification we had an idea collection initiative for the DebTags in Debian-Med before and eventually created this list : http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/community/d

Re: Scientific computing newbie

2007-01-13 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hello Benda, (do I address you correctly?) great to hear that Debian is used in your community. We had IT and electrical engineering students as visitors from China and India with us over the summer who said that it was all Windows back home. For me it was pure fun using a Chinese Windows envi

Re: Ubuntu patches for DDs

2006-01-11 Thread Steffen Moeller
Am Mittwoch 11 Januar 2006 07:03 schrieb Andreas Tille: > On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Jordan Mantha wrote: > > Ubuntu (22 in math, 26 in science, and 5 in tex) and what packages have > > been packaged for Ubuntu but not Debian (5 in math, 0 in science, and 4 > > in tex). If there is something that you wo

Re: RFS: gcx - astronomical image processing and photometry

2006-01-10 Thread Steffen Moeller
Am Mittwoch 14 Dezember 2005 05:02 schrieb Justin Pryzby: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:11:04AM +0200, Radu Corlan wrote: > > On 12/14/05, Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Some will critique your inclusion of the ./debian/ directory in the > > > upstream source. Personally, I'm okay w

Re: [pkg-bioc] Re: Genetics Program

2005-12-12 Thread Steffen Moeller
Am Samstag 10 Dezember 2005 15:54 schrieb Rafael Laboissiere: > * Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-12-10 08:16]: > > Undoubtedly many of the CRAN/BioC packages would build and work just > > fine. But the problem is that a fair number require hand-holding to, say, > > properly translate C

Re: [pkg-bioc] Re: Genetics Program

2005-12-09 Thread Steffen Moeller
> | > That is exactly the rub: I am not a BioC user, and I can't be the > | > default maintainer for another few dozen (or dozen squared) packages. > | > | Could we arrange a BioC repository for Alioth? > > Well we *do* have one in pkg-bioc [ which has refocussed on pkg-"CRAN and > BioC" but not b

Re: Genetics Program

2005-12-08 Thread Steffen Moeller
Hi all, Am Donnerstag 08 Dezember 2005 17:34 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > On 8 December 2005 at 16:55, Andreas Tille wrote: > What is the story with emboss? Couldn't find it for the currently ongoing > preparations of the next Quantian update. Are there binaries somewhere? EMBOSS would be lovely