[Debichem-devel] RYI: gnome-chemistry-utils 0.10

[Michael Banck]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 03:38:22PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> 
> Then this version now ships gchempaint (there is no longer a separate
> source package). I would like to put gchempaint (~ 3.5MB, but statically
> linked) and gcrystal (< 1MB) into gcu-bin (< 1MB) [1] and maybe put the
> architecture independent stuff (help, desktop integration, ...) into an
> arch-independent package if necessary. The size of gcu-bin will increase
> to probably 2.5MB I guess. Is there anybody who objects here?

I think gchempaint should stay as a seperate binary package, it's an
application on its own.
 
> Then I plan to remove our gchempaint-patch, which statically linked
> gchempaint with the "internal" libraries. The libraries can be put into
> the libgcu0 package. IMHO there is no compelling reason to statically
> link the application. The work created by the necessary patch is not
> worth it.
> 
> Then upstream does not longer install the development files (headers,
> pkgconfig file, ...), so the libgcu-dev and libgcu-doc package will
> disappear too.

OK.
 
> So this is just an information. The update will need some time (and I'm
> pretty busy atm too). If anybody wants to help, I can commit my first
> results, so you can proceed.
> 
> [1] Michael: IIRC we planned to rename gcu-bin. But I'm not sure. Do you
> have some more "clear" :) memories about this?

No :-/

Maybe it makes sense to split off any applications we or Jean consider
complete and stable and useful on their own into binary packages.


Michael