Hi Sascha,
On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 02:13:14PM +0200, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> Hi Andreas and Canberk,
>
> the problem was that ncbi-tools6 is still an old-style 1.0 format package,
> which can not contain binary files (such as the binary ASN.1 file in the test
> data) as part of the /debian directory. Either the file would need to be
> encoded as a text file, or (perhaps the better option) the package needs to
> be migrated to the newer 3.0 (quilt) format.
> For now I have base64-encoded the binary file to include it in the package
> and adjusted the test script to decode it back to binary before feeding it
> into asn2xml. I guess that’s OK for one file, but if we’d like to keep adding
> test data then it might be helpful to migrate.
> I will upload the package including the tests soon — thanks Canberk for
> adding the tests!
Ahhh, thanks for solving the problem. I'd personally probably had
converted to source format quilt 3.0 since I see no reason to keep
the old format but from a users point of view that's irrelevant and
your solution is fine as well.
Thanks a lot for your work
Andreas.
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