Bug#587025: salome: Packaging Code Aster module for Salome

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On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 13:56 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Hello André,
> 
> On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 17:12 +0200, Andre Espaze wrote:
> > Package: salome
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > The Salome Meca platform has recently been released, see [1].  An archive
> > made of binaries is available with Salome 5.1.3, Code Aster 10.1 and
> > the ASTER module for Salome. The latter allows to use some of the Code
> > Aster functionalities from Salome.
> 
> This is terrific.
> 
> > As Salome is already packaged and Code Aster is on the way [2], the Salome
> > Meca platform ships only three relevant modules written in Python:
> > 
> >     - ASTER (allowing to run the Code Aster solver)
> >     - EFICAS (for editing Code Aster files)
> >     - PAL (an EFICAS dependency)
> >     
> > Their sources should be published in a near future on the Code Aster
> > website [3] and it could then be interesting to bring them to a
> > salome-meca package. 
> 
> Great.  If this is a separate source code base from Salomé, then it
> should probably be a separate package, and we can rename this bug to an
> RFP (request for package) or ITP (intent to package).
> 
> Christophe, you mentioned that you are working on Salomé-MECA.  Where do
> things stand?

I add just started looking at Salomé-MECA... which is only available as
binaries right now. 

I am focusing on getting a "clean" aster package with the help of
upstream.

Just a remark I tried to git-builpackage petsc on my squeeze box and I
had some errors (malformated debian/changelog,...).

Christophe

> 
> > [1] http://www.code-aster.org/V2/spip.php?article295
> > [2] The current version can be browsed at:
> > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-science/packages/code-aster/
> > [3] http://www.code-aster.org
> 
> -Adam