Hello *, a friend asked me to package mesord, but it needed libsbml. Then I looked in Debian binary packages for "sbml", and nothing was there. So I started packaging it. I found an issue (missing SONAME), and contacted upstream -- and they replied that Debian already had a maintainer in Debian-Med (!!!).
I went back to our SVN and yes, libsbml is there. There is a debian/changelog full of entries, even some contributions by me (!), but it appears it's not in Debian (even though the plethora of changelog entries -- moral: "always use UNRELEASED", read further to understand why this statement). So, some more looking. Let's check again: $ apt-cache showsrc libsbml $ but: $ head debian/control Source: libsbml Priority: optional Maintainer: [..] Build-Depends: [..] Standards-Version: 3.8.0 Section: science $ and: $ head debian/changelog libsbml (3.2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low * Upstream update. -- Moriyoshi Koizumi <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:27:26 +0900 [..] $ Strange enough. Well, let's try the web interfaces: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=sbml ("Your search gave no results") http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/libsbml.html (404 Not Found) http://bugs.debian.org/src:libsbml ("There is no maintainer for libsbml [..]") Well, it could've been removed since August, let's check: $ wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals-full.txt [..] $ grep -i sbml removals-full.txt $ Uh. Also: $ grep "Initial release" debian/changelog * Initial release (Closes: #241111) $ But that bug has been closed for inactivity, not by an upload!!! So, question: where *is* libsbml?! If the first upload must be done yet, I would like to be added to Uploaders, DMUA to be set, and we should shrink debian/changelog to just "Initial release", reopening the bug and closing it with the upload. Also, there's a 3.3.1 available. (and please don't upload, the C# bindings need some special care taken for the Mono 2.0 transition ongoing in experimental -- I will do that myself once this "issue" is solved) Ciao, David -- . ''`. Debian maintainer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174
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