Re: PDBx dictionary in Debian [Was: Re: Bug#974973: ITP: libcifpp -- A library for creating and manipulating mmCIF and PDB files containing macro molecular structure information]
On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 19:05 +0200, Andrius Merkys wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On 2020-11-17 18:44, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > I admit I have heard the first time about mmcif_pdbx dictionary
> > files
> > but from what I've read /var/cache sounds a sensible place. If its
> > just a warning (what exact wording is used - could you give a full
> > output of `lintian -i` ? ) I would probably override this.
>
> Are you aware of other scientific Debian packages that store stuff
> under
> /var/cache and keep updating them from time to time over the network?
> Maybe we can take them for example when dealing with mmcif_pdbx
> dictionaries.
/var/cache is usually for temp files (that may remain for long...)
so if package cron task download things in /var/cache, I do not see
that as an issue while it does not prevent tool from "working". Program
should detect that no xxx files are present and ask user to download
files the expected way to place them in /var/cache/package_name
Package *purge* should however delete all /var/cache/package_name
related stuff
So in package itself, nothing should be in /var/cache/package_name, you
should juste get directory created empty with appropriate rights
My 2 cents...
Olivier
>
> > I do not think that we should try to compete with our very specific
> > low-popcon stuff with tzdata. We have to find a low maintenance
> > solution.
>
> Sure!
>
> Best,
> Andrius
>
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