Review: quanty 0.9.0-1
Package Information
| Description | quantum many body script language Quanty is a script language which allows the user to program quantum mechanical problems in second quantization and when possible solve these. It can be used in quantum chemistry as post Hartree-Fock or in one of the LDA++ schemes. (self consistent field, configuration interaction, coupled cluster, restricted active space, …) The idea of Quanty is that the user can focus on the model and its physical or chemical meaning. Quanty will take care of the mathematics. |
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| Maintainer | Debian PaN Maintainers <debian-pan-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net> |
| Changed By | Roland Mas <lolando@debian.org> |
| Sponsor | lolando@debian.org |
| Distribution | unstable |
| Architecture | any |
| VCS | git: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/quanty.git (browse) |
| Tracker | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/quanty |
| Uploaded | 18 days ago |
New Package Report
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| Architecture | source amd64 |
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| Distribution | unstable |
| Date | Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:26:50 +0200 |
| Source | quanty |
| Version | 0.9.0-1 |
| Changed-By | Roland Mas <lolando@debian.org> |
Changelog
quanty (0.9.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium . * New upstream release. * Update debian/copyright. * Don't run testsuite, as suggested by upstream (still a bit unreliable). . quanty (0.0~git20250119191535.560ae00-1) unstable; urgency=medium . * Initial packaging.
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| Priority | optional |
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| Component | main |
| Package-List | quanty deb science optional arch=any |
| Section | science |
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: quanty
Source: https://git.quanty.org/Quanty/release
Files: *
Copyright:
1995-2026 Maurits W. Haverkort and Quanty contributors
Yi Lu
Robert Green
Sebastian Macke
Marius Retegan
Martin Brass
Simon Heinze
Charles Cardot
Michelangelo Tagliavini
Sina Shokri
Kai Arnold
Paul Hill
Kevin Ackermann
Aleksandrs Zacinskis
License: CC-BY-4.0 or MIT
Files: Core/Random.cpp
Copyright: 1997-2002 Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura
License: BSD-3-clause
Files: LuaInterface/lua/*
Copyright:
1994-2013 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
License: MIT
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Comment:
This vendored version of Lua is required because it has been adapted
with patches specific to Quanty. Upstream seems to have lost track of
the individual patches and their rationale.
Files: debian/*
Copyright:
2026 Roland Mas <lolando@debian.org>
License: CC-BY-4.0
License: CC-BY-4.0
On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the Creative
Commons Attribution License 4.0 can be found in
`/usr/share/common-licenses/CC-BY-4.0'.
License: MIT
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
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LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.
License: BSD-3-clause
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
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1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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3. The names of its contributors may not be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without specific prior written
permission.
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Review Information
accepted — allocated to awm 16 days ago, started 16 days ago, completed 16 days ago.
Final Comment
Hi,
Thanks for fixing all the previously advised issues. This is much better :-)
There are still some relatively minor points that should probably be cleaned up...
debian/copyright is not fully accurate in two places (both verifiable from the tree):
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Missing copyright holder for the erfcx/Faddeeva code in Core/BasicMath/BasicMath_Complex.cpp. Lines ~859–996 embed Steven G. Johnson's erfcx ("written by Steven G. Johnson, October 2012", Comment block at line ~875) and the companion FaddeevaW/FaddeevaW_Im/w_im_y100 functions (same suite, referencing "algorithm 816" / "M. Zaghloul"). This is the well-known MIT-licensed code from the stevengj/Faddeeva repository. Two problems: the file carries no Copyright (c) 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Steven G. Johnson notice or MIT text (MIT requires reproducing the notice in substantial portions), and debian/copyright's Files: * stanza attributes the whole file to the Quanty contributor list under "CC-BY-4.0 or Expat" with no mention of Johnson/MIT. Since the licence (Expat) is compatible with the catch-all, this is not a DFSG violation, but the holder attribution is wrong/incomplete. Fix: add a Files: Core/BasicMath/BasicMath_Complex.cpp stanza with Copyright: 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Steven G. Johnson / License: Expat, and ask upstream to restore the notice.
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Journal PDFs and their data are mislumped into the catch-all. debian/copyright Files: * claims every file in the tree is held by "Maurits W. Haverkort and Quanty contributors" under CC-BY-4.0/Expat. That is not supportable for third-party published works shipped in the tree:
- Debug examples/Tutorials/20_NiO_Crystal_Field/NiO_Experiment/ and …/40_NiO_Ligand_Field/NiO_Experiment/: Phys. Rev. B 1998 Alders.pdf, J Synchrotron Rad 2009 Verbeni.pdf, plus companion data (NIXS_dd_JSR_16_469_2009, XAS_L23_PRB_57_11623_1998, RnlNi_Atomic_Hartree_Fock). Copyright for these journal articles belongs to APS/IUCr and their authors, not to the Quanty project, and their redistribution terms are unknown to me (binary, unreadable). The catch-all stanza therefore asserts a licence (CC-BY-4.0/Expat by Quanty) that the copyright holders have not granted.
- Also Debug examples/Tutorials/20_NiO_Crystal_Field/NiO_data.zip (1.5 MB binary data) and the various out.wan / CrF4_WFC / ORCA .out files are data of unverified provenance swept into the same stanza (more a hygiene than a legal point).
- Fix (recommended): Files-Excluded the two NiO_Experiment/ directories (and optionally the .pdf/.zip and debug artifacts), add a Repacksuffix: (the watch already has Dversionmangle: s/+ds\d+//), so the next repack carries +ds. At minimum, debian/copyright must stop attributing these third-party works to the Quanty contributors.
Also worth noting upstream-side (not a Debian blocker): the top-level LICENSE file says "The full license texts are provided in: LICENSE-CC-BY-4.0, LICENSE-MIT", but neither file exists in the tarball — only LICENSE is present. The Debian debian/copyright documents everything itself, so the package is fine; upstream's own license-file story is broken.
Thanks!
Other Reviews of this Package
| Version | Hash | Allocated | Completed | Reviewer | Status | Details |
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| 0.0~git20250119191535.560ae00-1 | 2755f69a… | 2026-09-27 01:24 | 2026-09-27 01:52 | awm | rejected | VIEW |