Re: [Pkg-emboss-devel] Re: EMBOSS 4.1.0 released
Am Samstag, den 10.03.2007, 16:25 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy:
> Le Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:21:58AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> > On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Charles Plessy wrote:
> >
> > >EMBOSS uses an obsolete version of libpcre and the current packages
> > >based on the work of Matt Hope ship by default files which conflict
> > >with debian packages.
> >
> > What is the reason for the conflict?
>
> This one:
>
> Unpacking emboss-lib (from emboss-lib_4.1.0-1_powerpc.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing emboss-lib_4.1.0-1_powerpc.deb (--install):
> trying to overwrite `/usr/include/pcre.h', which is also in package
> libpcre3-dev
>
> What is the role of those .h files ?
Search for C Header files - just necessary to compile your EMBOSS
package. Nothing necessary to run or distribute it as binary package.
> Are they better placed in a -dev
> package ? Moving or dropping it would open the way to non-dev emboss
> packages in experimental.
You don't need to distribute it, except you want other packages to
compile again this PCRE version. And that's not the case. We already
have a libpcre-package in Debian, that is up-to-date and not a (maybe
modified) local copy of PCRE in a package source.
> I guess that I have to read Junichi's library packaging guide.
> http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html
Only, if EMBOSS ships libraries at it's own. You don't need to
distribute library packages for EMBOSS, if it just creates e.g. static
libraries for it's own.
Regards, Daniel
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