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

[Steffen Moeller]

Hi,

the source rpms I sometimes inspect with rpm2cpio *.srpm | cpio-i

On Thursday 08 March 2007 08:44:31 Charles Plessy wrote:
> 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.

I have this with my pkg-escience Java packages that all ship binary jars with 
them and get into some undocumented incompatibility with official or recent 
upstream packages.

We could place the EMBOSS libs in /usr/lib/emboss and eliminate them one after 
the other, much like what Andreas suggested.

> 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

I read through it and am convinced that you have said right what should be 
said about that reply. Let's hope it is not too deterimental for the further 
acceptance of Debian in the community.


> 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 ?

Their debian/rules is implicit in the specs file.

Many greetings and thanks - as usual

Steffen

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