Hi Kyle, On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 03:56:42PM -0400, Kyle Edwards wrote: > Hello everyone! > > My name is Kyle. I work at Kitware, Inc., the upstream maintainer of > the CMake buildsystem (https://www.cmake.org/) and VTK, the > Visualization Toolkit (https://www.vtk.org/). As some of you on the > Debian Science list may have heard, we are making an effort to > officially support our flagship product, VTK, on Debian and its > derivatives. To that end, we have created a new set of Debhelper > utilities to meet the unique challenges of packaging a large CMake- > based project like VTK. We have named this project "dh-cmake". It > allows Debhelper to take advantage of some of the more advanced > capabilities of CMake.
Thanks a lot for this effort. We really appreciate this kind of support. > For example: > > * CMake's install() command takes an optional COMPONENT parameter, > which allows you to break the installation up into multiple > "components", such as "Libraries" and "Development". dh-cmake allows > you to assign these components to separate binary packages, to avoid > having to enumerate every file or file glob in the *.install files. > * Projects that are CTest-aware can optionally have the output of > dh_auto_configure, dh_auto_build, and dh_auto_test captured by CTest > and submitted to a CDash server as part of a continuous integration > process. This is very useful for making sure a large software project > builds properly on Debian. > * CPack includes a mechanism to declare dependencies between > installation components, for example, stating that the "Development" > component depends on the "Libraries" component. dh-cmake can > propagate this information into the output packages, so that > libexample-dev will automatically depend on libexample. > > You can download the source code at > https://gitlab.kitware.com/debian/dh-cmake I've cloned this and was able to build the package. I think you can solve the lintian warning W: dh-cmake source: ancient-python-version-field x-python3-version 3.2 by simply removing X-Python3-Version: >= 3.2 from d/control. Manpages for the tools in /usr/bin would be nice. >, and read more details about > the rationale and how it works. You can also install the binaries from > our own APT repository. Follow the instructions at > https://apt.kitware.com/ to set up the repository, and then install the > "dh-cmake" package. > > Our end goal is to get both dh-cmake and VTK into Debian proper, but it > is still in an experimental state, and there is still a lot of work to > be done yet. We would like to get some feedback on dh-cmake, and we > will eventually file a formal ITP and RFS for it as it becomes more > mature. We would also like to see other CMake-based packages follow our > lead and use these utilities. If you have a package that uses CMake, we > encourage you to give dh-cmake a try. I'll try with the next cmake package I'll touch. If you can give some examples this would be helpful. > Thank you in advance for the feedback. We are very excited to venture > into Debian development. Thanks a lot to you Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
