Hello,

Freemedforms[1] a suite of medical software. It contains a few applications:

freemedforms-emr freediams freeaccounts

others are still under development ...

At the time I packaged the freemedforms-emr (and when my review for freediams was approved), upstream released separate tars for each of these. They were therefore straight forward packages (I hadn't gotten down to building freediams for Fedora yet. I've now built it, but it's segfaulting. I'm waiting on upstream for a fix)

I recently updated the freemedforms package for fedora. I also went ahead and split the package into meaningful subpackages based on their functions. Spec[2]

I've found that upstream now releases a single tar[3] for all these applications which has made the packaging incredibly messy. These applications also share private libraries that are required for each of them during both build and runtime (I've placed these in a freemedforms-common-libs package in the spec).

Upstream maintains the package for debian. This is the "rules" file[4]. You'll notice upstream uses a single "spec" file to build all the applications. I was wondering if I should follow this? It will involve multiple invocations of qmake in the spec. Is that permitted? There doesn't seem to be a single command to build the entire suite at the moment.

It'll also increase the number of subpackages, but I think I can handle the complexity.

Another issue is that upstream is still working on other applications which are part of the suite. If I use a single spec, when these applications are ready, how does a packager include them? I'd like each of them reviewed before inclusion. We can't just modify an existing spec (another packager may not have access to the spec either)

How should I proceed? Should I keep the applications as different packages as I currently plan to? Should I look to use a single spec and generate the entire suite?

I've tried to fix as many issues as I could in the spec. If you do observe any, please let me know. I've only built at the moment, and not pushed any updates.

[1] http://www.freemedforms.com/en/ [2] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=freemedforms.git;a=blob;f=freemedfor... [3] http://code.google.com/p/freemedforms/downloads/list [4] http://code.google.com/p/freemedforms/downloads/list