Bug#584590: salome: New binary package organization

[Adam C Powell IV]

Package: src:salome
Version: 5.1.3-8
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: andre.espaze at logilab.fr

Greetings,

To reduce the demand on users' disks, it would be helpful to split the
salome package into multiple separate packages according to utility.
André Espaze and I discussed this last month in debian-science [1] and
the parameters discussed there would make a good division of the
package:
      * The main "salome" package with core modules KERNEL, GUI, GEOM,
        MED, SMESH, YACS, VISU
      * A "salome-extras" package including MULTIPR, NETGENPLUGIN (when
        it works), RANDOMIZER and SIERPINSKY
      * Pre-compiled "salome-example-modules" with LIGHT, PYLIGHT,
        COMPONENT, HELLO, PYHELLO, CALCULATOR and PYCALCULATOR
      * A "salome-test" package with all of the binaries containing
        "test" "Test" "TEST" etc. in their name, and if practical, a
        script to automate running all of the tests
      * Separate salome-doc for non-built docs, and salome-user-doc and
        salome-dev-doc for docs built using the usr_docs and dev_docs
        make targets (once Debian has the disk space for all ~600 MiB of
        docs!)

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2010/04/msg00006.html

Thoughts and contributions are welcome.  This will probably happen in
the -10 release.

-Adam
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