the math section should really be science

2001-03-11 Thread Drew Parsons
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 (i

Re: the math section should really be science

2001-03-11 Thread Brian Russo
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 05:20:31PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > 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 su

Re: the math section should really be science

2001-03-11 Thread Alexander Hvostov
Don't forget that you can have subsections (eg science/math, science/biology). This is already used for non-US/{contrib,non-free}; why not use it for things like this? Regards, Alex. On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Brian Russo wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 05:20:31PM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > > The

Re: the math section should really be science

2001-03-11 Thread Brian Russo
On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 11:36:21PM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > Don't forget that you can have subsections (eg science/math, > science/biology). This is already used for non-US/{contrib,non-free}; why > not use it for things like this? Wasn't aware of that. btw its not necessary to quote my

Re: the math section should really be science

2001-03-11 Thread Egon Willighagen
Op zondag 11 maart 2001 07:20, schreef Drew Parsons: > I therefore wonder if it would not be more appropriate to call this > subsection "science" rather than "math" ? I agree. That would make sense. /Me is also a chemist, and noticed this before. I think science/math and science/social etc would b

Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
This is sent to both -policy and -mentors, as it's both a proposal and a request for clarification/help. Please Cc me as I'm only subscribed to -mentors. I am in the process of fixing Mailman, which I've just adopted. There is this bug, #61761 (http://bugs.debian.org/61761 ), where the submitte

Processed: Re: Processed: Re: Bug#89038: the informatoion in the manpage should be in policy

2001-03-11 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: the math section should really be science

2001-03-11 Thread Josip Rodin
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 subsectio

Re: PostgreSQL 7.1beta5 debs available

2001-03-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote: >On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 16:43:13 +, Oliver Elphick wrote: [that PostgreSQL appears to need to move to non-us, since it now has SSL hooks in it] >> As far as I am aware, it will do no good not to build it with SSL support, >> since all the hooks are still in t

Re: Where to place images?

2001-03-11 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 11:52:41AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > However, I'd like to put images in something like /usr/share/web-images, > since I _might_ end up cluttering around and overwriting files which I > shouldn't, by placing the images in /var/www/mailman-images. Also, it looks > mess

Re: the math section should really be science

2001-03-11 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Josip Rodin wrote: > 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

Bug#89360: Science section not listed in http://packages.debian.org/unstable/

2001-03-11 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Package: www.debian.org On 20010311T220228-0500, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > So, put it in "science" section. > > It's not very useful if http://packages.debian.org/unstable/science > does not exist. I'll start moving packages of mine when I see > the section actually listed anywhere. It is l