[Pkg-emboss-devel] Re: EMBOSS 4.1.0 released

[Charles Plessy]

Le Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:24:05AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> >but I think that the main things preventing us to have EMBOSS
> >in Debian is our policy to use the packaged libraries instead of the
> >ones shipped in the upstream sources.
> 
> Well, to start the work on this: which exactly are the libraries we
> have packages for that are included in EMBOSS?  IMHO it would not
> be any harm to upload a package containing all the libraries shipped
> by emboss into experimental and start working from there reducing
> those redundant libraries step by step.

There starts the problems: EMBOSS uses an obsolete version of libpcre
and the current packages based on the work of Matt Hope ship by default
files which conflict with debian packages. However, I do not remember if
it is -dev packages or not.

Also, we would need a file which is not shipped by Debian's pcre3, but
the package maintainer was quite hostile to add it to his packages. He
answered my wishilist bug on -devel, without putting the bug in CC,
calling the developpers of EMBOSS "idiot", and avoiding direct
communication. I did not insist: contacts with that kind of persons are
highly demotivationnal ; let us do what we can do by ourselves whitout
disturbing Great Old Ones (it is 10 years he maintains this package).

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387557
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00893.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00973.html


The other library may be easier to work with: it is libplplot.

I did not think about uploading to experimental, this is a good idea.
Let us see if we can get something uploadable.

PS: I used mc to explore the srcrpm, but did not find anything like a
makefile. Does it mean that they do a ./configure && make && make
install by default ?

Have a nice day,

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Charles Plessy
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