Hi Anthony, (I don't need to CC you explicitly, right?
Anthony Boureux wrote: > Charles Plessy a écrit : >> Le Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:52:57AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : >> Hello Anthony, I just added your guest account to the debian-med >> Alioth project. >> Welcome again :) >> >> GBroswe 1.70 was released a few days ago, and I supsect that some of >> the perl >> modules you are preparing are some if its new dependancies. Can you >> file ‘RFP’ >> bugs for them, to avoid potential duplication of work? > > I will be please to file 'RFP' bugs for some packages. > First, > When I join, I thought to package bio-das-lite needed by > bio-das-proserver, but when I checked in the BTS for bio-das.* : I found > that Steffen Moeller already did some work on bio-das-proserver (see > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525847). Also he put a > first version for libbio-das-perl. So before to put RFP bugs, I like to > known if it's ok for him that I take > libbio-das-proserver : because I use it and already packaged > and libbio-das : need by Gbrowse this is all very old very initial stuff back from 2001 or so, please override/reuse ad libitum. > Unfortunately, for my first package, I need your help: > libbio-das-proserver is a DAS server with adaptors for different data > sources. In one of these sources (proxy.pm) the library bio-das-lite is > required, but this last one need the paralleluseragent and this one > works only with libwww-perl <= 5.76, nut lenny is already in 5.813. The > author of parallel-user-agent doesn't recommend to use libwww higher > than 5.76. Indeed, when I packaged parallel-user-agent : the tests > scripts are not working. (In my server, I make the package without doing > the tests, but it's only local and I don't use the proxy source for the > bio-das-proserver). > So I think I can't package parallel-user-agent, it can't be use on any > debian distribution. I didn't ask the author, but the last release was > in 2004 and I don't think he will do some adjustment/correction now > and so I can't package libbio-das-lite. I agree that this sounds much like you performing upstream work if you fix this incompatibility. What you might want to address is packaging a libwww-perl5.76 package, presuming that other packages are similarly incompatible. We should collect such cases on some web page, say for a future Google summer of Code project that would be called "bring unmaintained scientific software up to using the latest APIs". > solution 1/ to package libbio-das-proserver for now, is to remove the > dependency for libbio-das-lite and so remove the adaptor source > proxy.pm, and put a message in the package that this source was removed. I would start with that. Would there be a way to leave the orig.tar.gz intact? Since upstream does not change any more, you'd otherwise need to introduce an epoch version number at some later time when you found a fix ... not dramatic, just not nice. > solution 2/ I don't care of errors in test scripts perl and I package > anyway. Hm. Until you know what the problem is, I'd refrain from that. If the test is wrong, then of course it does not matter ... > solution 3/ the best solution will be the author of > libbio-das-proserver remove the dependency for libbio-das-lite (same > author as libbio-das-proserver) may be by using libbio-das or change the > dependency for parallel-user-agent in libbio-das-lite. You might want to contact him and ask. Best, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org