Bug#837556: ITP: lorene -- framework for numerical relativity

[Thibaut Paumard <thibaut@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Thibaut Paumard <thibaut@debian.org>

* Package name    : lorene
  Version         : 0.0.0~cvs20160908+dfsg
  Upstream Author : Eric Gourgoulhon, Philippe Grandclément, Jérôme Novak et
al.
* URL             : http://www.lorene.obspm.fr/
* License         : GPL2+
  Programming Lang: C++, Fortran
  Description     : framework for numerical relativity

LORENE (Langage Objet pour la RElativité NumériquE) is a set of C++ classes
to solve various problems arising in numerical relativity, and more generally
in computational astrophysics. It provides tools to solve partial differential
equations by means of multi-domain spectral methods.


Packaging LORENE is a prerequisite to enable support for numerical space-times
in Gyoto.

I intend on maintaining LORENE in the Debian Astro team.

I have split the package as follows:

liblorene-dev: the static libraries and header;
lorene-codes-src: codes using LORENE (they must be recompiled for each use
case);
lorene: a meta-package that depends on the two packages above;
lorene-doc: the reference guide.

Note that LORENE does not support dynamic linking. At the moment, this is not a
strong issue since there will be only one file distributed in Debian binary
packages that will be linked with it (libgyoto-lorene.so in  package
libgyotoX).

Kind regards, Thibaut.