On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 2:36 AM John Marshall <john.w.marsh...@glasgow.ac.uk> wrote:
> On 20 Dec 2019, at 19:21, Debian Bug Tracking System < > ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > > htslib (1.10.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium > > . > > * New upstream version > > * debian/source/options: ignore changes to aclocal.m4 config.h.in > configure > > * debian/control: remove libhts-private-dev (Closes: #947066) > > These changes have not yet been pushed to > salsa.debian.org/med-team/htslib.git so it is difficult to verify the bug > fix. > Oops, mea culpa. I've pushed them up. > > What is the purpose of the htslib-test subpackage? Its description says it > contains the test data and scripts (from test/*), presumably so the > upstream HTSlib test suite can be run against the library and tools > installed from libhts3 and the subpackage currently named tabix. Why then > does it also include HTSlib source code and an incomplete copy of HTSlib's > build infrastructure? > I believe that was the easiest way to build and run the unit tests against the installed libhts library. If you can find a simpler or smaller method to build + run the unit tests (especially if any changes needed can be incorporated upstream) then that would be very welcome! Cheers, -- Michael R. Crusoe
