Hi Paul, I'm sending this to you to get you in the loop [see thread below] on a name conflict for the NCL. Both "ncl" and "nexus" are used by other libraries. Perhaps phylo-ncl or phylo-nexus could work.
(or of course, it could be left to users of debian to compile from source). all the best, Mark On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > Hi Mark, > > thanks a lot for the ultra fast response. > > Could you come up with a better renaming suggestion and may be also put > the original author in CC? > > Its to bad to have two different scientific data formats with the same > name. I wonder whether there is some typical prefix of suffix to > differentiate these formats like bio-nexus or genome-nexus / nexus-bio > or nexus-genome. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 01:40:59PM -0600, Mark Holder wrote: >> Hi, >> In principle, I don't object to renaming it. libnexus is already used >> for a different tool. see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libnexus/ >> >> I'm not the original author of NCL. I'm just the maintainer. So that >> makes me a little leery about changing the name of the library. >> >> Mark >> >> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: >> > Hi Mark, >> > >> > the Debian Med team has packaged your NCL library for the Debian >> > distribution. We received a bug report that there is a naming conflict >> > with >> > >> > http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ >> > >> > My suggestion to solve this conflict would be to rename libncl to >> > libnexus. In my opinion it would make sense to rename it in general >> > since it is a more speaking name than ncl. >> > >> > What do you think? >> > >> > Kind regards and thanks for providing this code as free software >> > >> > Andreas. >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:17:17AM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail, and violates >> >> sections 7.6.1 and 10.1 of the policy. An optimal solution would >> >> consist in only one of the packages installing that file, and renaming >> >> or removing the file in the other package. Depending on the >> >> circumstances you might also consider Replace relations or file >> >> diversions. If the conflicting situation cannot be resolved then, as a >> >> last resort, the two packages have to declare a mutual >> >> Conflict. Please take into account that Replaces, Conflicts and >> >> diversions should only be used when packages provide different >> >> implementations for the same functionality. >> >> >> >> Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages >> >> (according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be >> >> slightly out of sync): >> >> >> >> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncl.a >> >> >> >> This bug has been filed against both packages. If you, the maintainers of >> >> the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will >> >> resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package. You may then >> >> also register in the BTS that the other package is affected by the bug. >> >> >> >> -Ralf. >> >> >> >> PS: for more information about the detection of file overwrite errors >> >> of this kind see http://qa.debian.org/dose/file-overwrites.html. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Debian-med-packaging mailing list >> >> debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org >> >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-med-packaging >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > http://fam-tille.de >> >> >> >> -- >> Mark Holder >> >> mthol...@gmail.com >> mthol...@ku.edu >> http://phylo.bio.ku.edu/mark-holder >> >> ============================================== >> Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology >> University of Kansas >> 6031 Haworth Hall >> 1200 Sunnyside Avenue >> Lawrence, Kansas 66045 >> >> lab phone: 785.864.5789 >> fax (shared): 785.864.5860 >> ============================================== >> > > -- > http://fam-tille.de -- Mark Holder mthol...@gmail.com mthol...@ku.edu http://phylo.bio.ku.edu/mark-holder ============================================== Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Kansas 6031 Haworth Hall 1200 Sunnyside Avenue Lawrence, Kansas 66045 lab phone: 785.864.5789 fax (shared): 785.864.5860 ==============================================
