Bug#1036776: release-notes: Release notes paragraph from Debian Med team

[Andreas Tille]

Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
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Please add the following patch from the Debian Med team to the release notes:


<title>News from Debian Med Blend</title>

<para>
As in every release new packages in the field of life sciences and medicine
were added. The new package shiny-server might be worth extra mentioning
since it simplifies scientific web applications using R. We kept on to get
Continuous Integration support for the packages maintained by the Debian Med
team.
</para><para>
The Debian Med team is continuously interested in feedback from users
specifically in the form of requesting the packaging of not yet packaged
free software or backports from new packages or higher versions in unstable.
</para><para>
To install packages maintained by the Debian Med team, install the
metapackages named med-*, which are at version 3.8.x for Debian bookworm.
Feel free to visit the
<ulink url="https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks">Debian Med tasks pages</ulink>
to see the full range of biological and medical software available in Debian.
</para>


Kind regards
Andreas.

[Justin B Rye]

Andreas Tille wroteL

Post by Andreas Tille
<title>News from Debian Med Blend</title>
<para>
As in every release new packages in the field of life sciences and medicine
were added.

"Have been" added, and I think it works better as

As in every release new packages have been added in the fields of medicine
and life sciences.

Post by Andreas Tille
The new package shiny-server might be worth extra mentioning

The new package <systemitem role="package">shiny-server</systemitem>
might be worth a particular mention,

(Or "might be particularly worth mentioning", among other options.)

Post by Andreas Tille
since it simplifies scientific web applications using R.

(Is it worth reorganising that into something like "since it makes it
simpler for scientific web applications to use R" or am I only
noticing it because I'm reading in pedant mode?)

Post by Andreas Tille
We kept on to get
Continuous Integration support for the packages maintained by the Debian Med
team.

It's not clear whether this means that you maintained the effort and
as a result got CI support or whether CI support is something you
already had that you kept going. Maybe:
We also kept up the
effort to provide Continuous Integration support for the packages maintained
by the Debian Med team.

Post by Andreas Tille
</para><para>
The Debian Med team is continuously interested in feedback from users
specifically in the form of requesting the packaging of not yet packaged
free software or backports from new packages or higher versions in unstable.
</para><para>

This needs at least one extra comma; maybe even:

The Debian Med team is always interested in feedback from users,
especially in the form of requests for packaging of not-yet-packaged
free software, or for backports from new packages or higher versions
in unstable.

(Are you *allowed* to put things in stable-backports if there's no
version in stable?)

Post by Andreas Tille
To install packages maintained by the Debian Med team, install the
metapackages named med-*, which are at version 3.8.x for Debian bookworm.
Feel free to visit the
<ulink url="https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks">Debian Med tasks pages</ulink>
to see the full range of biological and medical software available in Debian.
</para>

This all looks good; I suppose med-* gets a
<replaceable>*</replaceable> but no <systemitem role="package"> tags.

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Justin,

Post by Justin B Rye
Andreas Tille wroteL

Thanks a lot for looking onto the text in "pedantic mode". ;-) I'm not
a native speaker and its perfectly welcome if someone with better language
is polishing my scribbling. So I simply ACK all those enhancements.

Post by Justin B Rye

Post by Andreas Tille
<title>News from Debian Med Blend</title>
<para>
As in every release new packages in the field of life sciences and medicine
were added.

"Have been" added, and I think it works better as

ACK.

Post by Justin B Rye
As in every release new packages have been added in the fields of medicine
and life sciences.

Post by Andreas Tille
The new package shiny-server might be worth extra mentioning

The new package <systemitem role="package">shiny-server</systemitem>
might be worth a particular mention,
(Or "might be particularly worth mentioning", among other options.)

ACK

Post by Justin B Rye

Post by Andreas Tille
since it simplifies scientific web applications using R.

(Is it worth reorganising that into something like "since it makes it
simpler for scientific web applications to use R" or am I only
noticing it because I'm reading in pedant mode?)

Post by Andreas Tille
We kept on to get
Continuous Integration support for the packages maintained by the Debian Med
team.

It's not clear whether this means that you maintained the effort and
as a result got CI support or whether CI support is something you
We also kept up the
effort to provide Continuous Integration support for the packages maintained
by the Debian Med team.

This is definitely the better wording which describes what I intended to write.

Post by Justin B Rye

Post by Andreas Tille
</para><para>
The Debian Med team is continuously interested in feedback from users
specifically in the form of requesting the packaging of not yet packaged
free software or backports from new packages or higher versions in unstable.
</para><para>

ACK.

Post by Justin B Rye
The Debian Med team is always interested in feedback from users,
especially in the form of requests for packaging of not-yet-packaged
free software, or for backports from new packages or higher versions
in unstable.
(Are you *allowed* to put things in stable-backports if there's no
version in stable?)

Yes, stable-backports is required to have this package in testing. This
might be higher versions than in stable or packages which are not
available in stable.

Post by Justin B Rye

Post by Andreas Tille
To install packages maintained by the Debian Med team, install the
metapackages named med-*, which are at version 3.8.x for Debian bookworm.
Feel free to visit the
<ulink url="https://blends.debian.org/med/tasks">Debian Med tasks pages</ulink>
to see the full range of biological and medical software available in Debian.
</para>

This all looks good; I suppose med-* gets a
<replaceable>*</replaceable> but no <systemitem role="package"> tags.

I admit I'm not very deep in these tags - thus feel free to pick the proper
one.

Thanks a lot for your comments and for your work on the release notes

Andreas.

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