Hi David, hi all, first of all many thanks for this package. EMBOSS is command-line only, and it is very convenient to have such a frond-end locally in a lab, so that all users in the network can perform simple tasks from their browser using local databases.
Thanks to Nelson, I have much less comments to make. They are completely "en vrac", unsorted... sorry. There is a separate Alioth project for EMBOSS, and I added you in. I think that it is worthwile to upload emboss-explorer there rather than in the debian-med SVN. For the moment it can look like over-engeneering, but in the future, both repositories will be big :) Then, could you remove emboss-explorer from Debian-Med's SVN? In line with this change, can you change the maintainer to: Debian EMBOSS Packaging Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For the dependancies of emboss-explorer, I am unsure wether emboss-help is requred. Does emboss-explorer rely on files provided by this package? Otherwise, since it is already suggested by emboss itself, it may be simpler to drop it. A minor point about the description: as the DebTags will already indicate that emboss-explorer is made in Perl, maybe you can drop the last sentence. Debian/docs contains only one file. You may opt to add README as an argument to dh_installdocs. The core of emboss-explorer is mostly a perl module. I am wondering if it is worthwile to dedicate him a debian pacakge, with a name such as libemboss-perl. I recommend to consult the pkg-perl group to decide what and how to do. You may also find useful information in: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-module_packages.html I noticed that the package is Architecture:any. Is there a reason for this? Its executables are perl scripts. If you change to Arch:all, I thing that you can clean debian/rules from the parts handling gcc optimisations. Thank you very much for taking time to write nice XML manpages. For the next you write, I recommend to use the latest templates, in /usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl/examples/ Here is maybe the most imprtant comment: I think that your file layout does not respect the policy. The relevant part is 11.5 (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-customized-programs.html#s-web-appl) Lastly, since EMBOSS is still in experimental, I recommend to upload in experimental as well for the moment. Also, because of binary name conflicts, we will very son move the binary programs of EMBOSS to /usr/lib/emboss, which will be the only place where they are guaranteed to be unchanged. (/usr/bin will contain symlinks, some of them with modified names.) Emboss-explorer will have to take this into account. For the moment, its configuration seems to be done through EMBOSS::CGI::Conf.pm. Either we can patch new values in it, or we can try to make it parse a file in /etc. Let us think about the output files and the cronjobs in a separate mail, after the above issues are solved. 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]
