[Pkg-emboss-devel] Please rename 'splitter' in hsffig, or ask for package removal.

[Charles Plessy]

Dear QA team,

the emboss and hsffig package ship a '/usr/bin/splitter' program.
I am one of the maintainers of emboss. Hsffig was recently orphaned and
FTBFSes. For this reason, I am strongly reluctant to change the name of
splitter in emboss. However, since there is no maintainer for hsffig, I
think that policy 12.1 applies: 'splitter' has to be renamed in emboss and
hsffig, because no agreement can be reached.

I am willing to do this only if somebody actually uploads a similar
change in hsffig. I prepared a diff for NMU, which I posted in the
corresponding bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427441

Note that because of anonther bug I can not test he patch: hsffig fails
to build from source.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393951

If nobody uploads a revised version of hsffig, emboss will be prevented
to migrate in testing. For this reason, if you decline taking care of
this bug, I would like to request the removal of hsffig. Would you
support my request ?

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=423289

Have a nice week-end,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian-Med packaging team
Wako, Saitama, Japan