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,

Fwd: Trilinos: to split or not to split?

2015-10-05 Thread Graham Inggs
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'd 2012-05-15). Policy advises "When in doubt, always

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 ? I wonder if you need to prefix all

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 ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote: Nico Schlömer writes (Fwd: Trilinos: to split

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 it's probably a pain to do, but yes that would be good. Thanks. Ian

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

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