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Bug#724757: RFS: dxsamples/4.2.0-2 [ITA] -- Sample programs for the OpenDX Data Explorer



I sent the reply below to the debian-mentors list and Paul directly (sorry) in error, so including it in this reply to the bug in its entirety.

I am going to move the symlinks into the dx package and also add suggests on libdx4-dev (or dx-dev), libhdf4|5 (needed by one of the samples) and possibly others to the dxsamples package.
Because of the symlinks move, it makes sense to upload dx and dxsamples at the same time.
There are still some changes I want to make in dx which should be ready in a couple of days' time.


Hi Paul

> Could you please tag bug 412811 (new upstream version) as wont-fix if
> you still believe it is not fixable (please check).

I did check on this with the previous maintainer and I intend to get the opinion of debian-legal on how to proceed. It may be possible to simply remove the offending example and release the new version.

> And could you please at least comment on bug 173709 (crashing examples).
> (moreinfo unreproducible are possible tags). Might even belong in dx
> instead of dxsamples.

I did have a brief look at this and found there is a small number of samples that require scripts to be run or interactors to be built first. One of the samples in the bug report, supervise/complexdemo, is one of these. It may be that the reporter did not follow the instructions in the Readme.

I'm glad you responded to my request as you are also familiar with dx.

I have two questions regarding the packaging of dxsamples and how it relates to dx.

dxsamples includes two symlinks:
usr/share/dx/samples    usr/lib/dx/samples
usr/share/dx/java    usr/lib/dx/java

I feel it would be better if these were moved to the dx package as dx is only recommended by dxsamples Does that seem reasonable? For the small number of samples that require interactors to be built, I feel that dxsamples needs a suggests on libdx4-dev or the virtual package dx-dev. Does that seem reasonable, and which is preferred?

Regards
Graham


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