Re: Fwd: Trilinos: to split or not to split?

2015-10-05 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 05-10-15 11:30, Graham Inggs wrote: > Hi All > > Nico and Felix are seeking guidance on whether to split the Trilinos > binary packages so that each installs a single shared library or > whether to lump them all together, as was done in the previous > packaging (trilinos 10.4.0.dfsg-1, RM'

Fwd: Trilinos: to split or not to split?

2015-10-05 Thread Graham Inggs
www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-runtime [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/trilinos.git/tree/debian/control -- Forwarded message -- From: Nico Schlömer Date: 24 September 2015 at 11:17 Subject: Trilinos: to split or

Re: Fwd: Trilinos: to split or not to split

2014-04-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Nico Schlömer writes ("Re: Fwd: Trilinos: to split or not to split"): > > "libml.*", really ? > > I wonder if you need to prefix all of the library names :-/. > > We're already considering prefixing them all with "trilinos_". I guess i

Re: Fwd: Trilinos: to split or not to split

2014-04-16 Thread Nico Schlömer
> "libml.*", really ? > I wonder if you need to prefix all of the library names :-/. We're already considering prefixing them all with "trilinos_". --Nico On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Nico Schlömer writes ("Fwd: Trilinos: to s

Re: Fwd: Trilinos: to split or not to split

2014-04-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Nico Schlömer writes ("Fwd: Trilinos: to split or not to split"): > 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.*,...). "libml.*", really ?

Re: Fwd: Trilinos: to split or not to split

2014-04-14 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Nico, On Mon, 14 Apr 2014, Nico Schlömer wrote: > Which approach is better suited for Debian in your opinion? I think this is in 90% the second option. Only in case that the libraries used will probably never never never be used outside the program itself, then it makes sense to keep it in one

Re: Trilinos: to split or not to split

2014-04-14 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Nico Schlömer wrote: [...] > 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 work

Fwd: Trilinos: to split or not to split

2014-04-14 Thread Nico Schlömer
(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 presen