Re: Uploading GBrowse to experimental ?
Hi Charles,
the script metadb is used for the "user management". It creates a new "database" (sqlite) if not already created. It is required for some actions enabled by default at install.
I think we can remove it from post-install however. User can still execute it if required.
Olivier
----- Mail original -----
> De: "Charles Plessy" <plessy@debian.org>
> À: "Olivier Sallou" <olivier.sallou@irisa.fr>, debian-med@lists.debian.org
> Envoyé: Dimanche 10 Avril 2011 13:28:04
> Objet: Uploading GBrowse to experimental ?
> Dear Olivier,
>
> as you probably have seen on the commit mailing list, I have made a
> couple of
> changes to the gbrowse package. The goal of many of them was to make
> the build
> process more simple according to the common practices in Debian. I
> hope that
> you are not offended that I undid some of your work, just to redo it
> “our way”.
> I think that it will help other members of the Debian Med team to
> contribute.
>
> My main problem is the postinst script that calls
> /usr/bin/gbrowse_metadb_config, as I do not understand well that this
> script is
> doing exactly. It looks like it creates and deletes directories under
> /usr and
> /var. I think that it is difficult to justify, as these directories
> may belong
> to the package itself. Indeed, gbrowse fails to be installed twice in
> a row
> when this script is enabled. Since it does not look necessary to at
> least run
> the examples, I disabled it for the moment. Similarly, GBrowse seems
> to create
> some files or directory under /usr at run time. This is also something
> that
> we will have to correct.
>
> This said, I do not want to postpone the upload of the package ad
> vitam aeternam.
> How about uploading it to the experimental section of our archive ?
> Then we
> can keep on working on the issues above, and the proper setup of the
> render farm.
>
> In the past, Upstream has been very suppportive and if we have GBrowse
> in
> experimental, I think that they will be very motivated to help us by
> adding
> some flexibility in GBrowse where needed.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> --
> Charles Plessy
> Debian Med packaging team,
> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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