Re: Bug#592721: unblock: embassy-* and emboss.

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Dear release team,

as invited by your latest release update, here is a last follow-up
for the EMBOSS package (and to a lesser extent the EMBASSY packages),
for which I requested an unblock in August.

The version in Sid is the only supported upstream, contains many upstream
corrections compared to the version in Squeeze, and allow partial upgrades from
Lenny (thank you for having reminded me to support this).

It is a major version released in June, was uploaded first in Debian in July,
and the current package in Sid was uploaded in September. Since then, there was
no user reporting problems with it. It is also used in derivatives like Ubuntu
or Bio-Linux, and there as well, no problem was reported. The upstream bug
tracker at sourceforge does not show anything particularly important.

The only package that depends on emboss without being part of the
EMBOSS/EMBASSY suite is emboss-explorer, and neither me nor others found or
reported regressions when using it with Sid's version compared to Squeeze.

The version in Sid also reduces the use of duplicated code copies, as it now
builds on Debian's zlib and expat -dev packages. Here is the patch for the
embedded-code-copies file in the secure-testing SVN repository to document that
fact, that I have sent to secure-testing-team@lists.alioth.debian.org.

Index: embedded-code-copies
===================================================================
--- embedded-code-copies	(révision 15709)
+++ embedded-code-copies	(copie de travail)
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
 	- mirrordir <unfixed>
 	- poco <unfixed>
 	- klibc <unfixed>
-	- emboss <unfixed>
+	- emboss 6.3.1-1 (embed)
 	- ghostscript <unfixed>
 	- freeimage <unfixed>
 	- clamav <unfixed> (fork)
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@
 	- erlang <unfixed> (embed)
 	- ssed <unfixed> (embed)
 	- ircd-hybrid <unfixed> (static)
-	- emboss <unfixd>
+	- emboss <unfixed> (fork)
 	- cherokee <unfixed> (embed)
 	- oftc-hybrid 1.6.9.dfsg-1 (embed)
 	- ratbox-services <unfixed> (embed)
@@ -1238,6 +1238,7 @@
         NOTE: Might be fixed earlier. Lenny version recorded.
 	- dasher 4.7.3-1 (embed)
         NOTE: Might be fixed earlier. Lenny version recorded.
+	- emboss 6.3.1-1 (embed)
 	- gdcm 2.0.14-2 (embed)
 	- ghostscript 8.71~dfsg-2 (embed)
 	- grmonitor <removed> (embed)
@@ -2059,3 +2060,6 @@
 
 libasycns
         - loudmouth <unfixed> (embed; bug #566143)
+
+plplot
+	- emboss <unfixed> (fork)


For all the above reasons, I am recommending you to unblock emboss and the
embassy-* packages from Sid:

unblock emboss/6.3.1-6
unblock embassy-domainatrix/0.1.0+20100721-2
unblock embassy-domalign/0.1.0+20100721-2
unblock embassy-domsearch/0.1.0++20100721-2
unblock embassy-phylip/3.69+20100721-2

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan