Re: Clustalw in danger

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Charles Plessy wrote:

> Apparently, what clustalw needs is to be built on more arches. It was
> NMUed, but only on i386. Do you think it would be fair to ask the author
> of the NMU to finish the work on other arches, or is there a DD on this
> list who could try to rescue the situation ?

Well, every developer has access to the machines listed below:

   http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi

and can compile packages there.  I do not really like to spend
my time compiling packages on several architectures and there
are cases where this just does not work.  When I had this problem
in former times I had in most of the cases success by sending
a mail to debian-devel list:

   [Help] Please compile <pkg> on architectures <archs>

The result was normally that the package was compiled after about
two days on most architectures.  If one was missing I picked this
one myself and compiled it on one of the machines above.  Thus
we shared the effort of this stupid work (this is the ugliest
aspect of non-free software taht it forces you extra stress because
of missing auto builders.)

> We are running against time. Give the discussions on -devel, I am not
> sure that clustalw would be accepted in testing after the freeze.
>
> PS: this would be a good opportunity to integrate my patch for
> freedesktop support. http://bugs.debian.org/380715

While I would be in favour to implement your simple patch I would
make sure that the *current* version will be propagated to testing.
Half of the architectures are done and thus I would not risk to
leave clustalw at all because of the freedesktop file.

> PS2: Also, I think that Steffen wouldn't mind if the Maintainer was
> changed to the mail list of the debian-med packaging team. Steffen, can
> you confirm that the following would be OK ?

Since Steffen switched his job he is not as active as before and
as far as I know Steffen it would be no problem for him (i.e. in
case he will not answer your question I would take it for a "yes").

Kind regards and thanks for your effort

        Andreas.

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