[Q-e-developers] 5.1 Tarball issues

[Mic ael Banck]

Hi,

sorry for looking so (too?) late at it, but I'd like to point out a
couple of (not really dramatic, but problematic for packagers like me)
issues in the 5.1 tarballs:

1. The PHonon tarball as grown multiple top-level directories, namely
PHonon (was there before), as well as PlotPhon and QHA. I think this is
quite bad style and I am afraid that additionally this might break the
multiple-tarball-in-a-source-package distribution of Debian/Ubuntu (see
footnote [1] below for how that works). Not sure what a correct fix
would be like, maybe splitting PlotPhon QHA off as a seperate tarball?

2. The PWgui tarball has a superfluous espresso-5.1 directory next to
the PWgui-5.1 directory, this was not the case for 5.0.x.  Not sure how
bad that is, are people supposed to extract PWgui in the main
espresso-5.1 directory like the other packages (e.g. neb, tddfpt)? Then
you'd end up with espresso-5.1/espresso-5.1/PWgui-5.1.  On the other
hand, not sure why PWgui would be special-cased as the only module to be
extracted from outside the espresso-5.1 directory or elsewhere
entirely, but why then have an espresso-5.1 directory in there in the
first place?

3. As an aside, it wouldn't hurt if the capitalization between the
tarball name and the top-level directory inside the tarball would be
consistent, e.g. tddfpt-5.1.tar.gz extracts to TDDFPT/ and
xspectra-5.1.tar.gz extracts to XSpectra/, but GWW-5.1.tar.gz extracts
to GWW/ as expected (I'd vote for changing the tarball names to be
consistent with the directories).  So far I have just renamed the
tarballs accordingly for the Debian package, which I can do again[1],
just wanted to mention it while i'm at it.

Probably this is too late now and I will have to hack around for it for
5.1, but better late than never... In any case congrats to the imminent
release of QE-5.1!


Michael

[1] I have to rename the tarball names due to an internal implementation
on how multipiple tarballs are handled in Debian, namely
espresso_5.1.orig-$foo.tar.gz gets automatically extracted to $foo in
the espresso-5.1 directory by dpkg-source. This is exactly what I/we want,
except the capitalization is carried over. But as I have to rename from
tddfpt-5.1.tar.gz to espresso_5.1.orig-tddfpt.tar.gz anyway to make this
work, I can change it to espresso_5.1.orig-TDDFPT.tar.gz while I'm at
it.