On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 05:20:31PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > I'm packaging viewmol, a program for visualising molecules, used in > computational chemistry. > > The question arises, what subsection should it be put into? > A comparable program, rasmol, is already in debian, in the math subsection. > But computational chemistry is not, strictly speaking, mathematics (it > can be considered a sub-branch of mathematics, but you don't usually talk > about the weight or electron affinity of a number).
So, put it in "science" section. % grep-available -F Section -s Package science Package: hodie % This has been discussed already, and the new section was created/allowed. > Looking through the math section, there are other packages which aren't > strictly maths: some biomaths programs (genesis, busx, hmmr), some plotting > programs (sciplot, grace, geg), some astronomical tools (seesat5, ssystem). > > I therefore wonder if it would not be more appropriate to call this > subsection "science" rather than "math" ? You can file a couple of wishlist bug reports against the packages and ftp.debian.org to move them from one section to another... -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
