On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 10:33:03AM -0500, Dominique Belhachemi wrote:Hmmm, I previosely suggested something in this line to Michael but he
> >
> > So the last remaining questions are:
> >
> > 1. Can we fix the pristine-tar branch properly (to exclude third_party)
> > or would it possibly less work to recreate the Git repository (I
> > personally would not mind about the history of the packaging and I
> > also admit that I'm not keen on upstream history - so choosing the
> > solution that creates less work is fine for me)
> > 2. Deal with the dangling symlink by rather using bamtools.links.
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> I am going to attack point 2. The symlinks are only needed if we supporting
> multiple bamtools versions in Debian.
> I will simply rename the binary file from bamtools-<version> to bamtools.
insisted that he intended to keep things like upstream is doing it. I
do not really agree to this but finally I'm not a user of this package
nor would I consider myself as the main maintainer of this package.
I'd suggest to negotiate with Michael that your planed change is
actually the better idea.