Bug#987007: release-notes: Release notes for Bullseye by Debian Med team
Andreas Tille wrote:
> the Debian Med team proposes the following text for the Bullseye release notes:
>
> <title>News from Debian Med Blend</title>
>
> <para>The Debian Med team was involved into the fight against COVID-19
I'd recommend
<para>
The Debian Med team has been taking part in the fight against COVID-19
> by packaging software to research the virus on sequence level as well
> as fighting the pandemic with tools that are used in epidemiology.
Is this
by packaging software for researching the virus on the sequence level,
and by fighting the pandemic with the tools used in epidemiology.
or
by packaging software for researching the virus on the sequence level
and for fighting the pandemic with the tools used in epidemiology.
> The effort will be continued in the next release cycle with focus on
> machine learning tools that are used in both fields.
> </para><para>
> Besides adding new packages in the field of life sciences and medicine
> more and more existing packages received Continuous Integration support.
The existing packages aren't adding new packages; we need something like
Besides the addition of new packages in the field of life sciences and medicine,
more and more existing packages have gained Continuous Integration support.
> </para><para>
> A range of performance critical applications now benefit from
> <ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/SIMDEverywhere";>SIMD Everywhere</ulink>.
> This library allows packages to be available on more hardware platforms
> supported by Debian, notably on arm64, while maintaining the performance
^ ^
This sentence gets a bit sprawling. Maybe turn the parenthetical
commas into em-dashes? Or actual parentheses?
This library allows packages to be available on more hardware platforms
supported by Debian (notably on arm64), while maintaining the performance
> benefit brought by processors supporting vector extensions, such as AVX on
> amd64, or NEON on arm64.
> </para><para>
> To install packages maintained by the Debian Med team, install the
> metapackages named med-*, which are at version 3.6.x for Debian Bullseye.
^
> Feel free to visit the
> <ulink url="http://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 to me except that we're lowercasing "bullseye".
Oh, and httpsify that URL.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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