[Rivet] Package Rivet for Debian

[Hendrik Hoeth]

Hi,

Thus spake Lifeng Sun (lifongsun at gmail.com):

> I am the Debian [1] maintainer of CERNLIB [2], which contains some
> ancient and obsolete high energe physics libraries, e.g. Herwig-5.9,
> so that I intend to introduce some new HEP packages, such as PYTHIA8,
> FastJet, Rivet, ThePEG, HepMC and CLHEP, into Debian. What do you
> think if I package Rivet for Debian? The GUIDELINES will be respected.

I guess you want to make one package per project, right?

I don't think CLHEP is needed anymore. That pretty much falls into the
"ancient" category.

About Rivet, I second what Frank wrote. And if you need to make any
Debian specific changes, please let us know and send us the patches so
that we can consider including them in the upstream code.

Cheers,

     Hendrik

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