That approach works for me. Thanks for the advice! On Fri, Feb 6, 2015, 01:57 Giovanni Mascellani <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi. > > Il 02/02/2015 10:31, Michael Crusoe ha scritto: > > I am packaging the Trinity RNASeq assembler[0] for Debian and it > > (sadly) does use this old library. Can you restore > > libcollections15-java to the archive? > > Having a quick look at it, it seems to me that RNASeq uses collections > just through the Jung library (just as geogebra does), which is not in > Debian as well (and has a many-years-old RFP bug, #368931). Do you > intend to package it? Take also into account that, apparently, RNASeq > only uses very small parts of jung, and that jung appears to be dead > since early 2010. > > Personally, I would suggest to do as I did with geogebra: put an > embedded copy of the jung classes you need in your package, document > this in d/README.source and patch them in order to use the new > collections library (you can probably take a lot from Emmanuel's patch > on geogebra). > > I also read in d/README.source from geogebra (that I wrote a long time > ago) that there are parts of jung that are not free, so jung as a whole > could not be packaged (I do not remember how extensively the non-free > part are and what was the actual problem). Fortunately geogebra does not > need the non-free parts, so I could embed just the classes that were > needed. > > HTH. > > Regards, Giovanni. > -- > Giovanni Mascellani <[email protected]> > PhD Student - Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy > > http://poisson.phc.unipi.it/~mascellani > >
