[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#707632: gnuhealth: Package layout

[Mathias Behrle]

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Package: gnuhealth
Version: 1.8.1-1 (svn rev 13528)
Severity: wishlist

General layout of the package:

Please consider to package the health modules individually.

   Packaging all modules in one package breaks the modularity of Tryton. This
   way it will be impossible to reuse single modules. As already stated in a
   recent mail, this is a problem when using the relase tarball from gnu.org
   [2]. As pointed out, it is alternatelively possible to package from the
   releases on pypi.org. This would provide separate modules and keep the
   modularity, which is one of the major features of the Tryton framework.
   NB: Besides a clean modular structure it would have saved the hacks in the
   rules file in override_dh_auto_install (removing health_qrcode etc.).

   My concept would have been:
   * Separate packages of the health modules in the namespace
     tryton-modules-health-* (as done generally for Tryton modules so far).
   * One package for all modules as done for tryton-modules-all
     - tryton-modules-all-health (superseeding health_profile the Debian way).
   * Additional packages containing the customized configuration like
     - tryton-server-gnuhealth
     - tryton-gnuhealth-allinone

   Apart from this I would talk (and talked already;) to GNU Health upstream, if
   they don't see advantages in handling their repositories like Tryton
   upstream. The current state is somewhat in between real modularity and a
   single module.


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