[Debichem-devel] VOTCA available on my PPA

[Christoph Junghans]

2013/12/22 Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org>:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 02:55:04PM -0600, Christoph Junghans wrote:
>> I finalize found the time to make the first steps to package VOTCA for Debian.
>> The source/binary builds are available on
>> <https://launchpad.net/~ottxor/+archive/votca>.
>>
>> Please have a look and help me to improve it, so that I can hand it
>> over to debichem soon.
>
> I took a look at votca-tools now (as this is a Build-Depends for
> votca-csg and has to be uploaded first).  I see the following issues:
>
> 1. The -dev package is named libvotca-tools2-dev, i.e. includes the
> soversion.  This is discouraged (but unfortunately the library
> maintainer's guide advocated it at least last time I looked), unless a
> project is very widely used and switching all programs using it
> immediately is not feasable (like for GTK1->GTK2, oder Qt4->Qt5). I
> understand that Ubuntu ships it, but I would rather rename it to
> libvotca-tools-dev and either let Ubuntu deal with it, or add
> compatibility Replaces/Conflicts/Provides for it.
Renaming is fine as it has only been released as PPA.
So should we just rename the dev package or both?

>
> 2. votca-tools ships a convenience copy of boost.  Either it needs to be
> stripped off the tarball (i.e. the tarball needs to be repackaged), or
> the boost license and copyright needs to be added to debian/copyright.
VOTCA ships a pristine tarball already:
https://votca.googlecode.com/files/votca-tools-1.2.3_pristine.tar.gz
and on my PPA, I have used that one to create the debian package.

>
> Finally, I suggest adding an debian/upstream file with some metadata and
> the prime publications, I can do that.
Once we have converged, I will add the debian folder to our admin repository.

Christoph
>
>
> Michael



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