Package: openfoam Version: 4.1+dfsg1-2pre~6.gbpa01bff Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The libopenfoam package drops 108 libraries (without sonames) in /usr/lib and the openfoam package installs 226 programs in /usr/bin. Moreover following libraries are installed /usr/lib/openmpi-system/libPstream.so /usr/lib/openmpi-system/libptscotchDecomp.so /usr/lib/dummy/libMGridGen.so /usr/lib/dummy/libPstream.so /usr/lib/dummy/libmetisDecomp.so /usr/lib/dummy/libptscotchDecomp.so In the repository https://salsa.debian.org/littlejohn75-guest/openfoam you will find patches that remove those extraneous libraries. See bug number 917985: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917985. Among the numerous binaries installed by the packages, there are a number of generic names which may conflict with names from other packages. (see annex ) For example, if you install openfoam (and libopenfoam dependancy ) you cannot easily develop a scientific sofware with 'ODE' 'forces', 'engine' or 'lagrangian' libraries. And no other package can provide a 'noise', 'objToVTK', 'pdfPlot' or 'postProcess' command. In the aforementioned repository, libaries are installed in /usr/lib/OpenFOAM-4.1/lib and programs in /usr/lib/OpenFOAM-4.1/bin so that more than a version of openfoam are coinstallable. Moreover, this allows to install the software on only one system in a cluster of machines, and to automount the /usr/lib/OpenFOAM-4.1 directory on the other systems of the cluster. WARNING: mainterner scripts are not updated in the littlejohn75-guest repo as I do not have experience with this. Upgrade of an installed package can be very tricky. The Debian openfoam package as provided is useless for administrators of high performance compute systems with more than a few machines in the cluster. And with only a few systems, the impossibility to install more than a version of the software is a major hindrance. For all these reasons, please install in /usr/lib/PREFIX-VERS/{bin,lib} Stop the /usr/{bin,lib} namespace pollution by specialized leaf package ! Annex non exhaustive list of binaries which may conflict with other packages _____________________________________________________________________________ /usr/bin/attachMesh /usr/bin/changeDictionary /usr/bin/checkMesh /usr/bin/createPatch /usr/bin/extrude2DMesh /usr/bin/extrudeMesh /usr/bin/mirrorMesh /usr/bin/modifyMesh /usr/bin/moveMesh /usr/bin/noise /usr/bin/objToVTK /usr/bin/patchSummary /usr/bin/pdfPlot /usr/bin/postChannel /usr/bin/postProcess /usr/bin/refineMesh /usr/bin/refinementLevel /usr/bin/removeFaces /usr/bin/rotateMesh /usr/bin/selectCells /usr/bin/setFields /usr/bin/setsToZones /usr/bin/splitCells /usr/bin/splitMesh /usr/bin/streamFunction /usr/bin/subsetMesh /usr/bin/surfaceAdd /usr/bin/surfaceCheck /usr/bin/surfaceClean /usr/bin/surfaceFind /usr/bin/surfaceInertia /usr/bin/surfaceOrient /usr/bin/surfaceSubset /usr/bin/temporalInterpolate /usr/bin/topoSet /usr/bin/wdot /usr/lib/libODE.so /usr/lib/libconversion.so /usr/lib/libdecompose.so /usr/lib/libengine.so /usr/lib/libextrude2DMesh.so /usr/lib/libextrudeModel.so /usr/lib/libfileFormats.so /usr/lib/libfiniteVolume.so /usr/lib/libforces.so /usr/lib/liblagrangian.so /usr/lib/libliquidProperties.so /usr/lib/libmeshTools.so /usr/lib/libmolecule.so /usr/lib/libpotential.so /usr/lib/libreconstruct.so /usr/lib/libregionModels.so /usr/lib/libsampling.so /usr/lib/libsolidProperties.so /usr/lib/libsurfMesh.so /usr/lib/libturbulenceModels.so System Information: Debian Release: 9.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.utf 8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages openfoam depends on: ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libopenfoam 4.1+dfsg1-2pre~6.gbpa01bff ii libreadline7 7.0-3 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii mpi-default-bin 1.8 Versions of packages openfoam recommends: pn openfoam-examples <none> openfoam suggests no packages. -- no debconf information Happy new year to the Debian Science Team ! Cordialement, Regards, Mit freundlichen Grüßen, مع تحياتي الخالصة --- F. Petitjean Ingénieur civil du Génie Maritime. littlejoh...@laposte.net « Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte, non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher » Saint-Exupéry -Terre des hommes , chapitre III , L'avion.
