Dear all, I have progressed faster than expected on cleaning EMBOSS bugs, and this lead me to start to package EMBASSY, which is a set of additional programs for EMBOSS that are either work in progress of wrappers for external software.
EMBASSY programs have to be built against EMBOSS libraries. Currently, these are Ajax, Nucleus, and Eplplot. Since the developpment packages I prepared (libajax5-dev, libnucleus5-dev) provide a lot of header files, I moved them in /usr/include/ajax and /usr/include/nucleus respectively. However, the EMBASSY programs expect the files in /usr/include. Therfore, I patched their makefiles. I am not completely sure if what I did was the right things. Would it be better to leave the header files in /usr/include? Is there another way to tell to the compiler that it has to look in /usr/include/ajax and /usr/include/nucleus? As EMBASSY packages are ./configure && make && make install packages, I decided that factorizing as much code as possible was important, and used CDBS for their building. Please inform me if you have strong opinions about this, or if you know smarter ways of factorizing code with SVN. I am open to other solutions. Last but not least, you may have noticed that I mentionned the Eplplot library, but did give it a proper package. The reason is that it was a quite divergent fork of the plplot library in the past, but that it seems to have been updated in EMBOSS 5.0.0. Therfore, building EMBOSS against Debian's libplplot could make sense, but on the other hand this work may be a significant undertaking. Until we ask upstream or try by ourselves, we will not know... For the moment, all the -dev and non -dev parts of eplplot are in the emboss-lib package, in which they were from the beginning of EMBOSS packaging. I am still wondering if we should try to release EMBOSS or EMBASSY soon, or if we should try to work this out first. Two preliminary EMBASSY packages are already in our SVN, alongside with a script which automatically builds the manpages (in /tools). http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-emboss/ 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]
