Bug#592721: unblock: embassy-* and emboss.
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: freeze-exception
Dear release team,
the embassy packages in Squeeze are built against EMBOSS 6.2, which is
not available anymore except in the Debian snapshots. They will not
work with EMBOSS 6.1 nor 6.3.1, which are both stable upstream
releases available respectively in Squeeze and Sid. The 6.3.1 release
was done on July 15th, and I apologise that it took me four weeks to
prepare the updated packages (I should not have played with ikiwiki
instead of caring for my packages).
Possible solutions are:
- Remove the embassy-* packages,
- Upload emboss 6.2 from the snapshots to testing-proposed-updates,
- unblock the emboss and embassy packages from Sid.
The difference between EMBOSS 6.1 and 6.3.1 is one year of
development: the diff is large and there is probably no sense to
review it. However, it is a stable release, that corrects bugs and add
new features. I use it at work and did not find regressions.
Improvements are significant enough that one of our derivatives
featured the availability of the 6.3.1 packages as a news on their
website:
http://nebc.nerc.ac.uk/nebc/news/emboss-6.3
For the embassy packages, the difference between the versions
+20100115 and +20100721 are mostly to accomodate the changes in
emboss, against which the embassy packages are built.
In conclusion, the Debian Med team strongly recommends to ship emboss
6.3.1 and the corresponding embassy packages in Squeeze.
unblock embassy-domainatrix/0.1.0+20100721-1
unblock embassy-domalign/0.1.0+20100721-1
unblock embassy-domsearch/0.1.0++20100721-1
unblock embassy-phylip/3.69+20100721-1
unblock emboss/6.3.1-5
If this is impossible, then please remove the embassy packages from
Squeeze.
Cheers,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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