Re: [MoM] kmer-tools status update

2015-05-28 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Afif, On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 02:58:58AM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote: so we do have counter examples to this (surely not build with d-shlibs) and so it might be possibly to forget d-shlibs and move around the files via usual dh_install but I think we should draw a cutting line here. I'd

Re: [MoM] kmer-tools status update

2015-05-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Afif, On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 09:24:58PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote: It might be helpful to add that command in the managing patches section on the Debian Med policy. I was always following the steps there when doing my patching. I know the New Maintainer's Guide has it, but it's not easy

Re: [MoM] kmer-tools status update

2015-05-26 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Hi, Andreas, On الثلاثاء 26 أيار 2015 04:27, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Afif, No need to sorry about this. There are long standing developers who not provide DEP3 headers. :-) It might be helpful to add that command in the managing patches section on the Debian Med policy. I was always

Re: [MoM] kmer-tools status update

2015-05-26 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Hi, Andreas, On الإثنين 25 أيار 2015 00:13, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Afif, On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 11:12:00PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote: Hi, Andreas, I tried to go ahead with packaging shared libraries, but it looks like I have to read three to five more manuals before I can proceed and know

Re: [MoM] kmer-tools status update

2015-05-26 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Afif, On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 01:20:19AM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote: Hmmm, I can not parse this as a specific question to me - just ask if I can help somehow. Regarding packaging shared libraries I personally recommend using d-shlibs. There are some examples in our repositories for

Re: [MoM] kmer-tools status update

2015-05-26 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Hi, Andreas, On الثلاثاء 26 أيار 2015 02:33, Andreas Tille wrote: Thanks. These are good enough pointers for me to start trying something. I was mostly confused by having to mind the symbols and sonames. It looks like I should just build the .so files and take care of their placement in

Re: [MoM] kmer-tools status update

2015-05-26 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Afif, On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 03:06:01AM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote: Yes. I like the fact that d-shlibmove makes it easy by simply specifying --multiarch and that you do not neet to care whether sonames are correct or not since d-shlibmove checks it for you. Things basically turn out to

Re: [MoM] kmer-tools status update

2015-05-25 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Afif, On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 11:12:00PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote: Hi, Andreas, I tried to go ahead with packaging shared libraries, but it looks like I have to read three to five more manuals before I can proceed and know what I'm doing. Hmmm, I can not parse this as a specific