Re: Advent calendar
On 11/26/2013 08:39 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Thorsten,
>
> many thanks for this cute effort. It's very welcome.
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:01:14PM +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
>> This year, there are about 190 cases which are relevant to Debian
>> Med[1] (17 being serious[2]).
>> So please feel pity for them and allow the transition of as many as
>> possible poor souls to their final destination, the retirement
>> community in the Archive.
> The oldest bugs amongst these serious ones are affecting the ugene
> package. They had lower priority in the past since ugene is in
> experimental only but there is no reason to leave it like this. The
> reported problems are fixed in SVN by new upstream versions since a long
> time but I was never happy enough about the packaging of this to do the
> final upload. Currently the largest stumbling stone which prevents me from
> uploading the currently available packaging is, that in /usr/lib/ugene
> several libraries end up as unversioned lib*.so files. In some previous
> build cycles I did lintian was even warning about this but this warning
> somehow magically vanished.
>
> I also invented a patch to use the Debian packaged sqlite which
> definitely needs testing. The package builds with this patch but I have
> no idea how to test the functionality. It also should be propagated
> upstream.
>
> Hardening is another open problem as well as some more lintian warnings.
> In addition to the chance to show up in the advent calendar I'm offering
> a free (as in beer) beer for the brave packager who might finish ugene
> which IMHO should end up with an upload to unstable instead of
> experimental.
I am having a quick look at ugene, it seems that it embeds samtools
(src/libs_3rdparty/samtools/src/samtools), which is packaged in Debian
already
>
>> Furthermore I would like to mention another page[3] with lots of information
>> about Debian Med packages. Besides the list of RC bugs you can also
>> see packages that can not be built on a Debian architecture,
>> packages that are not allowed to migrate from unstable to testing
>> (and thus won't be included in the next release) and packages with a
>> new upstream version. I think those packages need some care as well.
> +1
>
>> As soon as I get the notice of a closed case I will record that in
>> our Advent calendar[4]. In contrast to normal calendars, let us fill
>> this special one with lots of good deeds. Maybe we can hide at least
>> one number of a closed case behind every door.
> That would be very cool.
>
>> PS. The fun starts not until December 1st :-).
> Which does not mean that updating some packages or fixing some bug would
> not be fun even before. ;-)
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
>> [1]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=debian-med-packaging%40lists.alioth.debian.org&archive=no&raw=yes&bug-rev=yes&pend-exc=fixed&pend-exc=done
>> [2]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=debian-med-packaging%40lists.alioth.debian.org&archive=no&pend-exc=done&sev-inc=critical&sev-inc=grave&sev-inc=serious
>> [3]http://udd.debian.org/dmd.cgi?email=debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org
>> [4]http://debian-med.alteholz.de/advent
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