Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#609038: ITP: biomaj -- a biological databank update and processing tool
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 09:41:00AM +0100, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> Hi,
> the issue is commons-cli-2 never released an "official" release. Version
> is stable, but project dropped on snapshot release.
> The version 1 is not compatible (new features were added to version 2).
>
> I can get the commons-cli2 sources, and get it compiled with biomaj, but
> I don't know if it should be packaged as a Debian package as it was kept
> as a snapshot release and there is no more support.
IMHO there are several options:
1. Leaving BioMaj as is and put it in non-free (worst option)
2. Check whether BioMaj can be ported to some released code (might
make the most effort but seems to be reasonable given the fact
that it might be no good idea to rely on orphaned code)
(perhaps something to consider for BioMaj 1.2 / 2.0?)
3. Ship the commons-cli-2 inside BioMaj tarball and build the
jar from it in the BUild process (a bit hackish but probably
the easeast solution)
4. Package commons-cli-2 separately. From Debian perspective the
cleanest solution but maintaining orphaned code doese not seem
to be very attractive and if option 2. is planned for the future
it might be some waste of time.
5. ?
Just pick one of the above options (preferably not 1.) at your choice.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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