On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Michael Banck <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 04:36:23PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Apropos  gpaw-setups:  Since I can run `gbp buildpackage` in my clone her
> > I did so but pbuilder was running into the following error:
> >
> >  pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy : Depends: gpaw-setups which is a virtual
> package.
> >
> > It seems you need to package gpaw-setups first if this is a
> > build-dependency of gpaw.  (BTW, please remove the ',' at the end
> > of the last Build-Depends.)
>
> I assume those pseudopotentials are required to run the test suite?
>
> In that case, what we've been doing with other packages is just shipping
> the minimum required data files to run the test cases as patches in the
> Debian packaging, this might work for GPAW as well.
>
> That depends on course on how many different PPs the testsuite needs, if
> the answer is "most of them", then yeah, Build-Depending on gpaw-setups
> sounds ok.
>

in my opinion the software should be shipped functional, i.e. the whole
release of gpaw-setups.
It will take a beginner user few seconds to do "apt-get install gpaw", but
if gpaw-setups are
mutilated it will take him maybe half a day (if ever) to figure out that he
is missing some data,
find where to download them, which version, how and where to install them,
and which
environment variables to set in order to use them.

I see that for example
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/all/abinit-data/filelist includes
all elements from the periodic table, and has the size of ~40MB.


> In any case, I think the binary package should just be called
> "gpaw-data" in line with other scientific packages.  It's fine to keep
> the source package name as gpaw-setups, of course.
>

let's keep gpaw-setups. This name is known to all the users of the program,
and gpaw-setups packaged under the same name on Fedora/CentOS.

Marcin


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