Please consider creating a Debian/Ubuntu package

[olebole]

Dear Hanno,

I am a member of the Debian Astronomy Team. Our aim is to package astronomical software for Debian, from where it will also migrate to derivative distributions like Ubuntu or Mint.

Would you consider packaging rebound for Debian? This would ease the installation of the software and help people keeping it updated. So, it can broaden the user base of it.

If you would package it, we would be glad to help you when you run into problems. Once the package is ready, we could upload it to the Debian archive.

We have a mailing list, which I would recommend to subscribe, since this is our main information exchange. Also, we will have a Debian Sprint in Heidelberg on August 14th 2015 where you are welcome.
If you have any questions, please contact either me directly, or our mailing list.

[hannorein]

Hi Ole! Thanks for the suggestion. That sounds like a great idea.

[olebole]

Nice to hear! To give a start: I wrote a tutorial, which is mainly targeted for astropy affiliated packages, but may help you as well -- especially since you use Python as well.

[hannorein]

I'll close this for now. I think it's just so easy to install REBOUND by cloning the repository or using pip, it doesn't make sense to have another package around that needs to be maintained.