[Rivet] Package Rivet for Debian

[Frank Siegert]

Dear Lifeng,

On 08/04/11 15:18, Lifeng Sun wrote:
> 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.

That would of course be very welcome from our side!
Rivet's build system should be in good enough shape such that this will 
hopefully not be too much effort for you. In fact, we have made some 
effort a little while back to get most of these packages (plus some 
more, e.g. the Sherpa MC) into deb packages on launchpad:

   https://launchpad.net/~hep/+archive/ppa

(but have recently failed to update them)

So if there is anything that we can do on the upstream side to make 
packaging easier for you then let us know and we'll consider it.

Cheers,
Frank