Re: Doublette Re: [Git][med-team/gffread][master] gclib injected into salsa

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

On 18.04.19 17:16, Steffen Möller wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On 18.04.19 16:08, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi Steffen,
> >
> > just a very short notice before going basically offline for some days:
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 02:42:40PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
> > > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/genome-code-lib
> > >
> > > because of having too much gclib-similar package names, I had decided
> > > against it at the time.
> > I'll think about this.
> > > That all said, upstream of gclib does not want to have it packaged
> > > separately.
> > Why ?
> >
> > It has a free license so why should upstream "not want"?
> >
> > As far as I understood we need it and we even have at least
> > two code copies around (cdbfasta, stringtie).
>
> I read this somewhere. Did not find it again when I just looked.
>
> Also,  stringtie does not compile against the official gclib release,
>
> at least it did not in my hands.

I just saw the readme of gffread to say the opposite, i.e. to explicitly
go for gclib first.

So, I propose to just live with that piece of redundancy in stringtie
for now and introduce the gclib package to Debian - just not with that name.

Steffen