(Forward from debian-mentors.) Opinion time!
I'm packaging a rather large software, Trilinos, a collection of libraries (libbelos, libml, libaztecoo,...) for numerical high-performance computing. Upstream supports monolithic builds, i.e., the collection of libraries is assumed to be fully present on the system, and the user picks out what parts of it he or she wants to use. This makes for a very simple debian/rules and debian/control, cf. <https://github.com/nschloe/debian-trilinos/blob/803866a4d552aced1e4b019f1be32217245ce7f4/debian/rules>. Downsides of this include the size of the package, and the fact that the package name "trilinos" does not correspond with the library names (libbelos.*, libml.*,...). Given its subpackage structure, Felix helped out creating a packaging format that splits the build up into subpackages. Debian's shlibs magic takes care of the dependency hierarchy, but a couple of things problems need to be worked around <https://github.com/nschloe/debian-trilinos/blob/split/debian/rules>. Which approach is better suited for Debian in your opinion? Cheers, Nico -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cak6z60ezvabvn7y5wek3rlvwwrgxccyxanqsjcbfhagqobq...@mail.gmail.com
