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, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
