[yt-dev] yt and Debian/Ubuntu

Matthew Turk matthewturk at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 15:54:08 PDT 2014


Hi Ole,

On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Ole Streicher <debian-devel at liska.ath.cx> wrote:
> Dear yt developers,
>
>> From: Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 9:50 AM
>> Subject: [yt-users] ANN: yt-3.0 released!
>>
>> The yt community is proud to announce the release of yt 3.0.
>
> I write you on the behalf of the Debian Astronomy working group. We are
> trying to package and maintain astronomy related software for the
> Debian/GNU operating system.
>
> After getting your yt-3.0 announcement, I found your web site [1], and I
> think that this projects would be worth to be packaged for Debian.
> Would you like to join our efforts by packaging your software? We can
> offer any help in case you run into difficulties or have questions. You
> can contact me directly, and/or (preferably) subscribe to our mailing
> list [2].
>
> I found an older question on yt-users [3] about a possible Ubuntu ppa --
> since Ubuntu (and other distributions, like Mint) takes most of the
> packages directly from Debian, it would automatically be there as well.
> And since (as mentioned in an answer to [2]) the installation procedure
> is clean, the packaging would be quite easy, but with some advantages
> for the user (like automated upgrades).

This would be outstanding.  I've subscribed to the debian-astro
mailing list, and I would like to do what I can to either lead the
effort or assist with the effort to package yt for Debian.

-Matt

>
> Best regards
>
> Ole
>
> [1] http://yt-project.org/
> [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-astro/
> [3]
> http://lists.spacepope.org/htdig.cgi/yt-users-spacepope.org/2012-March/007566.html



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