On Thu, 2017-11-09 at 02:03 -0500, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > > - TODO Split private cram headers off into a new libhts-private-dev > > package > > I'd rather be in favor of restoring the bundled htslib to seqlib as > the short term solution. Putting a private package in the archive may > exacerbate the problem and is odd nevertheless.
The no convenience copies of libraries is a pretty strong rule of Debian, and there are good maintenance reasons for it. Although I'm not opposed to it I'd like several people to agree that its the best option first. On the plus side overriding it would allow us to drop the patch that is making the cram symbols public, on the downside we'd have to remember that bugs involving htslib also impact libseqlib. I think we'd need to use the Built-Using tag? I haven't used that before. On the other hand upstream did suggest that the private-dev library was a viable temporary solution. (Though doing that would push htslib into NEW). > > And there is another action item-- > TODO update the htslib package to the latest release. Very true.... I did try building 1.6 and there was a problem with running tests that I haven't investigated yet. Diane
