Bug#584590: salome: New binary package organization

[Denis Barbier]

On 2010/6/4 Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> 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.

Hi Adam,

IMO the main problem just now is that this package is very difficult
to manage due to its size and to the resources needed to build it.
I modified debian/rules to help with testing packaging changes.  New
targets are provided for each salome module individually: reconfigure
(by calling build_configure), configure, build and install.  I added
AM_MAINTAINER_MODE into all configure.ac files so that one can modify
Makefile.am files without having to always rebuild everything, this
can save a lot of time.  This work has been done in the 'dev' branch
of a cloned repo, see
   http://git.debian.org/?p=users/barbier-guest/salome.git;a=log;h=refs/heads/dev
It has not been fully tested, some things may have to be fixed, but I
believe that this branch should be committed anyway.

Denis