Forwarding to debian-science for general discussion Am Montag, den 26.01.2009, 16:58 +0100 schrieb Sylvestre Ledru: > > Eventually pkg-scicomp will merge with debian-science in a near future > > and become a sub-project Hopefully > > we will discuss that soon > Glad you are still considering it. ;) > > In order to simplify the packaging in the team, we wrote a policy for > Debian Science:
This is *not* the policy of Debian Science! Debian Science does not have any packaging policy and will hopefully never have one. Being part of Debian Science just requires to care about scientific packages or related goals. It will (and must) *never* require to follow any packaging policy except the Debian policy and it also must not require to join Alioth! I forgot to reject your announcement the first time I saw it on the Debian debian-science mailing list. But now I have to say this loud and clear. Debian Science is formed of several packaging teams and several package maintainers and the debian-science Alioth project is just one of them and not "the one". You should compare your package count to all the other teams, who are part of Debian Science (scicomp, med, debichem, gis, ...) and ask yourself, how you come to the idea to dictate a policy?!?!?! And: *If* we (all the teams and maintainers) ever agree on one mailing list, then it will definitely not be an Alioth list. debian-science exists. Stop announcing your very own and personal packaging policy as the "Debian Science Policy". I'm not amused and some kind of pissed off. If you want to write down something about git/git-buildpackage or svn/svn-buildpackage or dpatch or quilt, than send it to the authors of the Debian new maintainers guide and add it there to let everybody benefit from it. If you want to coordinate the workflows in your private packaging team, then write it down, but make clear, that it is a locally valid policy. If you want a *Debian Science Policy*, then write down a document, that does not contain any requirements like joining Alioth, using special packaging tools, ... And such a policy has to be agreed on debian-science and has to be published at debian.org. Then you can call it the "Debian Science Policy". It is rude and offending to pubslish your own ways of packaging as a global policy. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
