Re: Role of anfo

[Tim Booth <tbooth@ceh.ac.uk>]

Hi Andreas,

> PS: Some clarification about bitseq (see my other mail) would be helpful
>     as well.

OK, that one first - I packaged it by request but it turns out the user
really wanted the R module rather than the standalone version.  I wasn't
planning to to anything more on it for BL but I'd think that for Debian,
given the generic command names, you'd really want a wrapper (standard
form - like so):

---
cat > /usr/bin/bitseq
#!/bin/sh

if [ $# = 0 ] ; then
    echo "   Usage: bitseq <cmd> [args]"
    echo "for help: bitseq <cmd> -h"
    echo "Commands:"
    ls /usr/lib/bitseq | sed 's/^/  /'
fi

prog=`basename $1 .py`

PATH="/usr/lib/bitseq:$PATH"

if [ -e "/usr/lib/bitseq/$prog.py" ] ; then
  exec "/usr/lib/bitseq/$prog.py" "$@"
else
  exec "$prog" "$@"
fi
---

(I've not tested this - just thought it was easier to write the code
than describe what it should do)

Of course this negates your work adding manpages, but then it will keep
Lintian happy if you just put in a single mini-manpage for bitseq.

===

Back to anfo, and the build looks good - I'll be glad to have this back
in BL.  I'll put the updated version into BL7 now.  I committed the
changes I made to get it compiling for me, but these are probably
inappropriate for Debian so I expect you just want to revert them in
SVN.

I'm not sure about the missing manpage - anfo-sge is definitely not the
one.  And the right manpage is actually there in the GIT repo:

https://github.com/udo-stenzel/anfo/tree/master/man

So why is it not in the tarball?  My quick guess is that anfo.1 should
be in the tarball and anfo-sge.1 should be absent and the auther just
screwed up making the tarball.  A little more detective work needed...

Cheers,

TIM

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