Bug#731211: aster: new upstream release, work in progress

[Denis Laxalde]

Denis Laxalde a écrit :
> I've push the current state of my current in a git repository (converted
> from the svn one):
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/aster.git

Added a few more commits.

Currently, I'm able to build aster and to run tests (though with some 
adjustment to as_run, see below).

Now, I have a couple of issues that need to be resolved.

1. The previous packaging shipped the serial and MPI flavor of aster, 
currently I only build the MPI version (I am not even sure the serial 
version will work). Do we want to keep both version or could we only 
ship one, at least over a first phase ?

2. I don't build the -dbg and -dev binaries so far.

3. Why does the package installs into /usr/aster/codeaster, upstream 
just uses /usr/share/aster ?

4. I cannot use as_run (from code-aster-run binary. astk source) as is, 
I need to specify the option `--vers /usr/share/codeaster/`, maybe I 
also need to adjust this package.

Most of these questions actually boils down to whether we can step from 
the previous packaging and consider a simpler approach to begin with and 
eventually move towards something more complex once everything 
stabilizes. And if this approach is acceptable, is some sort of 
transition needed ?

Thanks,
Denis