Dear all, the EMBOSS libraries sometimes break backwards compatibility, and are not used by other packages than emboss and embassy-*, which have the same upstream maintainers and are released together the same day.
In our Debian packages, I propose to move the EMBOSS libraries from /usr/lib, for instance in /usr/lib/emboss/lib, and to merge the packages libajax6, libajax6-dev, libnucleus6, libnucleus6-dev, into the emboss-lib package. This will also prevent package renaming or confusion when versions 7 and higher of EMBOSS will be released. Together with a change of section, it will also make the EMBOSS libraries private from a Debian point of view, and solve our problem with emboss-lib that currently does not respect the Policy with the eplplot library (a fork of the plplot library that should not be used outside EMBOSS). Since I am not very familiar with library packaging, I seek your comments. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100913051729.ga23...@merveille.plessy.net
