Bug#451193: Thoughts on the Vienna RNA package
[I did not checked code or website - just relay on the information of your mail]
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Charles Plessy wrote:
- It uses a patched version of Readseq. Maybe we should consider to
build Vienna on Debian's readseq, possibly by adopting its patches if
they are not disruptive. By the way, we could incorporate the Debian
package for readseq in our repository, if its current maintainer
agrees.
See my other mail about readseq.
- The Vienna package provides libraries that other programs use. For
instance, MiRanda, a sofware to discover targets of micro RNAs uses
Vienna's RNAlib.
In this case it should definitely go into a separate binary package.
Moreover we should verify that there is not a separate upstream package
of the library. In this case we should stick to official library and
try to ask Vienna authors to remove copys of other parties code from
their upstream tarball (see aeskulap - dcmtk issue).
- Emboss provides some wrappers so we shoud probably package them as
well.
Yes.
- There are some build issues such as the Makefile in the Kinfold
directory that has no distclean rule. Probably some autoconf mastery
can solve the problem.
I had some good experiences with autoconf - sometimes upstream is
even accepting autoconf patches, but not always.
- The vienna-rna source package should probably be split into multiple
binary packages, for instance RNAforester which is a distinct work.
I'm in favour of separate binary packages if there is a good chance
that people needs only a part of the whole functionality of the
upstream project.
- I do not have the impression that some commercial licences are sold,
so maybe we have a chance of obtaining a relicencing ?
Without having read the license: DFSG free meens free for everybody
and not only free for Debian. So I might have missunderstood you
but your proposal would not help to move it from non-free to main.
Or was you talking about getting it for non-free at all?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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