Andreas Tille <[email protected]> writes: > I'm aware that language extensions in Debian are not conform to > policy. However, as we discussed in > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2018/06/msg00043.html > > only stripping the extension is sometimes hard for rdepends of > our packages. In this case the lack of blastpgp.pl requires > heavy patching of t-coffee which could be avoided if we would > provide both versions - blastpgp.pl and blastpgp - one of both > as symlink.
Hi, Andreas. I'm open to making these changes if necessary, particularly given that this directive is merely a "should" and that there's a fair bit of precedent for violating it. (Also, ncbi-blast+ will need a new upload anyway to address a formal GCC 10 recognition issue, per #957581.) However, on the t-coffee side, I'd like to offer some alternatives to this heavy patching: - Have debian/rules automatically make this formal change in a new override_dh_configure target and revert it in override_dh_clean. - Ship a private directory (say, /usr/share/t-coffee/bin) containing symlinks or wrappers with .pl extensions and arrange to add it to PATH at launch. - Better yet, bypass these scripts and run BLAST+ directly; they even offer a --print_only flag that helps with such porting. Thanks for maintaining t-coffee (and so many other packages), and please let me know if any of these suggestions works for you. -- Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org) http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/[email protected]
