Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/374
Le Wed, May 04, 2016 at 09:10:48PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Wed, May 04, 2016 at 11:29:27AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > > > that developers of quite important libs (important in terms of breaking > > about 20 packages - probably way more unpackaged software) are not able > > to craft a reliable interface. I wonder whether we should try to > > explain them the trouble they are creating with their release management > > and whether we should upload any new version to experimental first and > > test other packages against it. > > let's not discard too quickly the possibility that this was really a bug > and not a design decision. > > I reported the problem at <https://github.com/samtools/htslib/issues/374>; > let's see the answer. Good news, the answer is that the "incompatibility" is only in the test suite of samtools, which took into account a failure caused by a bug present in htslib 1.3 and fixed in htslib 1.3.1. I expect that it applies to bcftools as well. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles
