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Debian Science

Goals

  • Provide to researchers and scientists better experience when using Debian.
  • Classify, package and distribute free software useful to science and research.
  • Support any quality efforts around free scientific software.
  • Manage the efforts when dealing with various implementations (MPI, BLAS, LAPACK...)
  • Maintaining the Debian Science Blend

How to use it?

  • You can use Debian Science perfectly as you are using Debian because it is a completely internal project and is nothing else than Debian itself. We just felt a need to found a team that works as a strike force for scientific software inside Debian.
  • #metapackages provide an easy way of installing a range of software appropriate to your particular field.

metapackages

The aim of the Debian Science metapackages is to provide a useful set of packages for someone working in a particular scientific field.

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Wiki

debtag [1]

ITP/RFP [2]

Bugs [3,4]

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DebianScience/Biology

field::biology

ITP/RFP

bugs

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DebianScience/Chemistry

field::chemistry

ITP/RFP

bugs

sentinel

Economics

bugs

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DebianScience/Electronics

field::electronics

ITP/RFP

bugs

sentinel

DebianScience/Engineering

field::engineering

ITP/RFP

bugs

sentinel

Engineering-dev

bugs

sentinel

DebianScience/Geography

field::geography

ITP/RFP

bugs

sentinel

?DebianScience/Linguistics

field::linguistics

ITP/RFP

bugs

sentinel

DebianScience/Mathematics

field::mathematics

ITP/RFP

bugs

sentinel

?DebianScience/MathematicsDev

bugs

sentinel

DebianScience/Meteorology

field::meteorology

ITP/RFP

bugs

sentinel

Meteorology-dev

bugs

sentinel

DebianScience/NanoscalePhysics

field::physics

ITP/RFP

bugs

sentinel

?DebianScience/NanoscalePhysicsDev

field::physics

ITP/RFP

bugs

sentinel

DebianScience/Physics

field::physics

ITP/RFP

bugs

sentinel

DebianRobot

ITP/RFP

bugs

sentinel

DebianScience/Statistics

field::statistics

ITP/RFP

bugs

sentinel

DebianScience/Typesetting

use::typesetting

ITP/RFP

bugs

sentinel

DebianScience/Viewing

use::viewing

ITP/RFP

bugs

sentinel

DebianScience/DataAcquisition

bugs

sentinel

?DebianScience/DataAcquisitionDev

bugs

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Image Analysis

bugs

sentinel

Numerical Computation

bugs

DebianScience/Grid

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DebianScience/Logic

[1] Debtags are a means of classifying packages.

[2] RFP/ITP - Request for package / Intent to package - these are pseudo bugs that track which packages have been requested and whether someone is working on them.

[3] The list of bugs is a work in progress. It is not yet regenerated automatically, so may be out of date.

[4] The debian-science QA page at http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org&ordering=3 provides additional information.

How to join

  • Debian Science has a mailing list debian-science. This mailing list should be used for general questions. And if you wonder why the mailing-list reply-to is set to the author instead of the list itself, read this.

  • The packaging team has also two mailing lists available on Alioth: debian-science-maintainers for general packaging discussions & debian-science-commits for commit notifications.

Contributing to Debian Science

General advice for helping Debian is available at http://www.debian.org/intro/help in addition to the DebianScience specific suggestions below.

* If you are willing to help: DebianScience/ContributingToDebianScience & Debian Science Policy

Don't let the fact that you aren't a Debian Developer put you off - there are still lots of useful things you can do to improve the scientific software in Debian. A list of #efforts being undertaken is below.

How Non Debian Developers can help

  • Propose new scientific packages from sponsoring.
  • Test the software and provide informative bug reports. See http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html for one view on how to report bugs effectively

  • Sometimes bugs are difficult to reproduce - you can help by reproducing them and providing test cases.
  • Send patches that fix bugs to the bug tracking system.
  • Translations
  • Add debtags to classify packages. See http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/

How Debian Developers can help

  • NMU bug fixes.
  • Sponsor package uploads.
  • Package useful software.
  • Encourage upstream authors to release their software with a free license. DebianScienceSampleLetter may be useful for this.

Resources

Efforts that could be undertaken

  1. DebianScience
  2. DebianScience/Astronomy
  3. DebianScience/Biology
  4. DebianScience/Bits
  5. DebianScience/Blend
  6. DebianScience/CDD
  7. DebianScience/Chemistry
  8. DebianScience/Citations
  9. DebianScience/Classification
  10. DebianScience/ComputerAlgebraSystems
  11. DebianScience/ConferenceTools
  12. DebianScience/ContributingToDebianScience
  13. DebianScience/DataAcquisition
  14. DebianScience/DataFormats
  15. DebianScience/Debci
  16. DebianScience/DebianLinks
  17. DebianScience/Electronics
  18. DebianScience/Engineering
  19. DebianScience/Geant4
  20. DebianScience/Geography
  21. DebianScience/Grid
  22. DebianScience/Hardware
  23. DebianScience/LinearAlgebraLibraries
  24. DebianScience/LiveCD
  25. DebianScience/Logic
  26. DebianScience/Mathematics
  27. DebianScience/Meetings
  28. DebianScience/Meteorology
  29. DebianScience/MxCuBE
  30. DebianScience/NanoscalePhysics
  31. DebianScience/News/Draft
  32. DebianScience/OtherLinks
  33. DebianScience/Physics
  34. DebianScience/ProblemsToWorkOn
  35. DebianScience/ProblemsToWorkOn/DebTags
  36. DebianScience/Programming
  37. DebianScience/R
  38. DebianScience/ROOT
  39. DebianScience/ROOT (root-system-build.sh)
  40. DebianScience/ROOT (root-system-changes.sh)
  41. DebianScience/References
  42. DebianScience/Robotics
  43. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS
  44. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS (jade-debian-desktop-full-missing-packages.rosinstall)
  45. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS (jade-debian-desktop-full-missing-packages_20160216.rosinstall)
  46. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS/DebianPackages
  47. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS/DebianRoboticsPackages
  48. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS/Development
  49. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS/Motivation
  50. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS/OnBuster
  51. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS/OnBuster (kinetic_debian_moveit.rosinstall)
  52. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS/Packages
  53. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS/Packages (ros-order.sh)
  54. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS/Todo
  55. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS2
  56. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS2/Packages
  57. DebianScience/Robotics/ROS2/Packages (ros2-order.sh)
  58. DebianScience/Sage
  59. DebianScience/Sponsoring
  60. DebianScience/Statistics
  61. DebianScience/Typesetting
  62. DebianScience/UnofficialRepository
  63. DebianScience/UpstreamAuthorsContactingQA
  64. DebianScience/Usertags
  65. DebianScience/Viewing
  66. DebianScience/Wallpapers
  67. DebianScience/cctbx
  68. DebianScience/cctbx (cctbx-depends.png)
  69. DebianScience/cctbx (libtbx_config_to_dot.py)
  70. DebianScienceFftw
  71. DebianScienceFortran
  72. DebianScienceGRASS
  73. DebianScienceGSL
  74. DebianScienceGnuplot
  75. DebianScienceGshhsMaps
  76. DebianScienceMaxima
  77. DebianScienceMetPython3
  78. DebianScienceOctave
  79. DebianSciencePkgConfig
  80. DebianSciencePolicy
  81. DebianSciencePsychology
  82. DebianScienceSampleLetter
  83. DebianScienceTips
  84. DebianScienceVisitPackaging


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