On Sat, 2017-05-27 at 23:52 -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: > Science people: > > I'm looking at the sundials packaging again. This is an umbrella > library > that has several different sub-libraries for > > - different ODE solvers > - linear algebra backends used by these solvers > > The granularity question came up earlier, and some of you pointed me > to > a section in the policy (section 8.1) that indicates that putting at > least each solver into its own separate package is the right thing to > do. > > What about the -dev package? I THINK putting everything into a single > libsundials-dev is OK, and shouldn't break anything. Is the only > downside the unnecessary dependencies a user would need to install > (for > instance a user that only wants serial computations would need to > install all the parallel libraries)? > > How frowned-upon is this? A joint libsundials-dev would simplify some > things, and make stuff less error-prone. > > I can do a finer split, but want to make sure this is worth the > trouble > first.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that each library composing sundials had separate (so)versioning? If so, then you'd have no choice but ship them in separate -dev packages, right? Ghis
