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Review: quanty 0.9.0-1

Package Information

Descriptionquantum 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.

MaintainerDebian PaN Maintainers <debian-pan-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net>
Changed ByRoland Mas <lolando@debian.org>
Sponsorlolando@debian.org
Distributionunstable
Architectureany
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/quanty.git (browse)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/quanty
Uploaded18 days ago

New Package Report

.changes◂
Changed-ByRoland Mas <lolando@debian.org>
Architecturesource amd64
Distributionunstable
DateSun, 04 Oct 2026 18:26:50 +0200
Sourcequanty
Version0.9.0-1
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.
.dsc◂
Sectionscience
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listquanty deb science optional arch=any
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:
 .
 The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
 included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 .
 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
 furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 .
 The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
 copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 .
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 IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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 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.

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:
 .
   1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
      notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 .
   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.
 .
   3. The names of its contributors may not be used to endorse or promote
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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):

  • 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.

  • 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!

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