[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#514328: OpenFOAM-1.5 patch for paraview-3.4.0

[Ondrej Certik]

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Oliver Borm <oli.borm at web.de> wrote:
> Package: paraview
> Version: 3.4.0-2~ppa3~intrepid1
> Severity: wishlist
>
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>
> Hello,
>
> the actual implementation of the OpenFOAM reader in paraview-3.4.0 is
> deprecated. Takuya OSHIMA has implemented a new version of the OpenFOAM
> reader, see for example
> (http://openfoam.cfd-online.com/cgi-bin/forum/show.cgi?tpc=1&post=17466
> and
> http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Tip_Building_ParaView3_With_OpenFOAM_Native_Reader).
>
> Is it possible to apply this patch directly to the paraview debian
> package? Gentoo linux has already done this, so you can get a patch
> which is known to work for example from
> (http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/paraview-3.4.0-OpenFOAM-48.patch.bz2).
> You can get an actual result of the patched paraview-3.4.0 with
> OpenFOAM-1.5 reader from my ubuntu ppa:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~oli-borm/+archive/ppa
>
> It should also be possible to compile the paraview-3.4.0 source package
> on debian.

Unfortunately, the package doesn't build. If you have time, any help
is very appreciated. See the debian scientific computing team and the
svn repository. Then we can apply this patch.

Thanks for any help,
Ondrej