Hi Rashad, Thanks for working on packaging the ORFEO toolbox to Debian.
I am wondering about the usefulness of having so many binary packages. I guess this reflects the fact that OTB is nicely modularized, but even toolkits like VTK / ITK are packaged with a reduced number of binary packages for simpler maintenance. Besides, none of the shlib packages have a corresponding -dev package (ala Boost for instance), so providing individual shlib packages for each binary sounds excessive.
Also, please keep in mind that having one package per module means that, assuming OTB keeps introducing newer modules future releases, then new -shlib packages would have to be introduced each time and be manually validated by the release team. With a "combined" package approach (ala VTK for instance), the new modules can just be added to the existing packaging without requiring manual intervention.
Best regards, Ghis On 29/12/15 09:20, Rashad Kanavath wrote:
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages] Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package "otb" * Package name : otb Version : 5.2.0+dfsg-1 Upstream Author : cont...@orfe-toolbox.org * URL : http://orfeo-toolbox.org * License : CeCILL-2.0 Section : science It builds those binary packages: libotb - ORFEO Toolbox library metapackage libotb-apps - Plugins for ORFEO Toolbox applications libotb-dev - Free library of image processing algorithms - development libotbapplicationengine-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBApplicationEngine libotbcarto-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBCarto libotbcommandline-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBCommandLine libotbcommandlineparser-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBCommandLinePaser libotbcommon-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBCommon libotbcurladapters-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBCurlAdapters libotbedge-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBEdge libotbextendedfilename-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBExtendedFileName libotbfuzzy-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBFuzzy libotbgdaladapters-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBGdalAdapters libotbimagebase-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBImageBase libotbimageio-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBImageIO libotbimagemanipulation-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBImageManipulation libotbiobsq-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBIOBSQ libotbiogdal-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBIOGDAL libotbiokml-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBIOKML libotbiolum-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBIOLUM libotbiomstar-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBIOMSTAR libotbiomw-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBIOMW libotbioonera-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBIOONERA libotbiorad-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBIORAD libotbiotilemap-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBIOTileMap libotbmathparser-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBMathParser libotbmetadata-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBMetadata libotbopenthreadsadapters-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBOpenThreadsAdapters libotbossimadapters-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBOssimAdapters libotbossimplugins-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBOssimPlugins libotbpolarimetry-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBPolarimetry libotbprojection-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBProjection libotbqtwidget-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBQtWidget libotbrcc8-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBRCC8 libotbsiftfast-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBSiftFast libotbstreaming-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBStreaming libotbsupervised-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBSupervised libotbtestkernel-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBTestKernel libotbtransform-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBTransform libotbvectordatabase-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBVectorDataBase libotbvectordataio-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBVectorDataIO libotbwavelet-5.2-1 - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBWavelet otb-bin - ORFEO Toolbox command line applications otb-bin-qt - ORFEO Toolbox graphical user interface applications otb-testdriver - ORFEO Toolbox library - OTBTestDriver python-otb - ORFEO Toolbox Python API for applications To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/otb Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/otb/otb_5.2.0+dfsg-1.dsc More information about otb can be obtained from http://orfeo-toolbox.org here is the ITP report - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764860 Changes since the last upload: Regards, Rashad Kanavath