Le Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:20:55PM +0200, David Paleino a écrit : > > Now emboss-explorer provides also libemboss-acd-perl. If you look into > ./debian/, you'll see that the packaging is a bit hacky. Would you suggest > something to make it look better?
Hi David, Now that EMBOSS::Acd is not in emboss-explorer anymore, you have to depend on libembnoss-acd-perl. Also, you have to move the manpage from emboss-explorer to libemboss-acd-perl. I tried the packages and on my machine they do not work out of the box. Apache complains that /var/www/emboss/output is not writeable. Indeeed, the directory is owned by root and I am unsure that we are allowed to change this. I think that we should better use a more volatile path. Maybe /var/run/emboss-explorer? There is a similar problem with the configuration: /usr/share/perl5 may be read-only, or worse: shared between computers. I would suggest to move the "our" definitions into a file in /etc and source it. This way, it would also become automatically a conffile. In the current design of the package, local modifications would be lost at upgrade. About the files generated by emboss-explorer, I think that it is our responsability to chose reasonnable default values and to install a crontask. I have mixed feeling about the install script. If the one provided by upstream is not patchable, maybe its funcionnalities should be directly handled by debian/rules and debhelper? Lastly, here are a few details: - You can write (C) Luke McCarthy 2004-2006 in the copyright file, since there was a release in 2005 and 2006. - README does not contain useful information for Debian users and can be safely remboved (it is redundant with copyright). - Following discussions on -devel, I am considering making emboss only recommend emboss-data. But emboss-explorer will not do anything useful without, so maybe it is safer to depend on it. - As you said in a previous email, debian/rules is somewhat messy. I would suggest for instance to either directly install files, or use dh_install, but not to mix the approaches. - There is a test script in the t directory, maybe we can ship it in /usr/share/doc/emboss-explorer/examples ? - Maybe you will need a patch system. I used dpatch a lot in the past, but I recommend you to have a look at quilt. I use it in my latest package, melting. For the simplest usage it works like dpatch except that 00list is calles series, and that normal patches can be used. 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]
