Packaging Open Porous Media (OPM) software suite
Hi,
I have recently posted an ITP (bug )for this software
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=987381
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* Package name : opm-common, opm-material, opm-grid, opm-models, opm-
simulators, opm-upscaling
Version : 2021.04
Upstream Author : OPM <opm@opm-project.org>
* URL : https://www.opm-project.org/
* License : GPL2+/GPL3+
Programming Lang: C++, Python
Description : Open Porous Media (OPM) software suite
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The Open Porous Media (OPM) software suite provides libraries and
tools for modeling and simulation of porous media processes, especially
for simulating CO2 sequestration and improved and enhanced oil
recovery.
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I am part of the OPM development team. We are prepared to maintain the
packages, but as nobody of us is a Debian developer, we would of course
need help for uploading. We have not done so, but intend to ask Ansgar
Burchardt whether he has time for this.
I have an account on salsa and the current version of the packaging
effort can be found there. https://salsa.debian.org/blattms/opm-common
https://salsa.debian.org/blattms/opm-material
https://salsa.debian.org/blattms/opm-models
https://salsa.debian.org/blattms/opm-grid
https://salsa.debian.org/blattms/opm-simulators
https://salsa.debian.org/blattms/opm-upscaling To us as recreational
packagers this looks good now, but chances are that we have missed
stuff.
I also requested being added to the Debian Science team on Salsa, but
that does not seem to have happened yet (or I missed it). Once that
happens I will gladly push to https://salsa.debian.org/science-team.
Some notes on the packaging:
- Packaging is based on the branch point (git commit) for the upcoming
2021.04 release. Once that is released we will add the new version.
- We use git-buildpackage with the default layout and pristine-tar
(there is a debian/dbp.conf file that activate pristine-tar, and tells
it which files to strip from upstream)
- We have stripped some sources for the Debian packaging (jenkins,
travis, embedded source code, upstream packaging for Redhat, Debian,
OpenSuse) to satisfy the Debian Policy and prevent unnecessary changes
from appearing in the Repositories of the Debian packaging. Note that
these are also stripped from the tarballs and listed in
debian/copyright (Excluded-Files) and debian/gbp.conf for ease of
maintenance.
- Apart from opm-material and opm-models, which are header-only
libraries and missing lib<project>.deb because of this, most
repositories create Packages lib<project>-dev.deb, lib<project>.deb,
lib<project>-doc.deb and (for opm-common, opm-grid, opm-simulators)
lib<project>-bin.deb. There are also packages with python bindings:
python3-opm-common.deb, python3-opm-simulators.deb
- For the library packages the SONAME will change with each release, as
the ABI is quite unstable. The version is not part of the library
package name, which lintian would warn about. But we are overwriting
the warning currently.
- opm-upscaling is missing manpages for the binaries. This will be fixed
upstream and backported soon.
Some questions:
- In the future we imight want to be able to install several versions
of libopm-simulators-bin.deb concurrently (which would need to depend
on different versions of the library packages lib<project>.deb, and
probably install binaries into different versioned directories and use
update-alternatives. Is there a proposed policy/approach to do this? I
would assume that this needs to be prepared now by putting some kind
of versioning into the Debian packages for the libraries (e.g. like
Petsc).
- Does the top-level directory in the tarballs need to have a special
name (like opm-common-2021.04 for version 2021.04 of opm-common)?
The reason for asking is that upstream tags final versions as
release/<version>/final, which will make uuscan us funny looking
opm-common-release-2021.04-final. If it does upstream needs to use the
more common tagging scheme v<version>, or we need to create the
tarballs ourselves and use gbp import-orig <tarball>.
Thanks a lot for your kind help.
Cheers,
Markus
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Dr. Markus Blatt - HPC-Simulation-Software & Services http://www.dr-blatt.de
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