[Q-e-developers] PHonon Module strange directory structure

[Paolo Giannozzi]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org> wrote:

>
> $ tar xf ../PHonon-5.3.0.tar.gz
> $ ls
> PHonon  PlotPhon  QHA
>
> I.e. there are three top-level directories in the tarball which is rather
> unusual for packaged software (and I've seen a lot of it).
>

If this is a problem, the solution is easy: move PlotPhon and QHA out of
the tarball at next release. They are seldom modified (and unfortunately no
longer maintained) anyway so there is no point in including them in each
new release.

Paolo

>
> The other QE modules don't do that.
>
> > Fixing the fact that it is not "Debian-friendly" in the way a Debian
> > package maintainer would like to see it distributed... well... it is
> > not a priority and it is not a concern.
>
> Right, I only mentioned Debian as an example, and as I said, I can
> work-around it.
>
>
> Michael
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