Dear Stéphane, I'd been talking with you from my work address about gerris and axisymmetric applications in the last year or so. I think I mentioned I'm in the Debian project, and that we'd get gerris updated in the Debian archives. I'm pleased to report this is now done. Ruben Molina prepared some fresh packaging, and it's now accepted in Debian unstable (sid). The snapshot we were working with was from October last year. Once the package reaches Debian testing, we'll update to your latest snapshot. We've got a Debian source repository in git rather than darcs (hope you don't mind too much!), at http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-science/packages/gerris.git/.git;a=summary Some queries came up about the different licences of the bits in the modules subdirectory, they were different from the GPL used for the main part of gerris. So for simplicity we've just deleted the modules subdir for now. Debian are sticklers about free licences ;) In your build process you create libgfs separately and then link against it to build the gerris binaries. We decided to take this library separation and package in a similar way to other library packages in Debian. So gerris has a Build-Dependency on libgfs-dev, and libgfs-dev depends on libgfs-1.3-1. This gives you the freedom to separate out libgfs into a separate package in the future if you want to. Of course gerris also has a runtime dependency on libgfs-dev (I think the binaries use header files to compile the gfs script into an executable at run time). In this way gerris is a bit different to other library/application combinations, so you could certainly argue we should have just kept everything, libraries and binaries, in one gerris package. Shouldn't really matter in practice, I hope. We've placed the Debian packaging under the auspices of the Debian Science group, so managing it won't have to be all just up to me or Ruben. Would you like me to send an announcement to the gerris-users mailing list? Thanks for a great piece of software! Drew Parsons dparsons@debian.org Drew.Parsons@anu.edu.au
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