On 11/26/2013 08:39 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Thorsten, > > many thanks for this cute effort. It's very welcome. > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:01:14PM +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote: >> This year, there are about 190 cases which are relevant to Debian >> Med[1] (17 being serious[2]). >> So please feel pity for them and allow the transition of as many as >> possible poor souls to their final destination, the retirement >> community in the Archive. > The oldest bugs amongst these serious ones are affecting the ugene > package. They had lower priority in the past since ugene is in > experimental only but there is no reason to leave it like this. The > reported problems are fixed in SVN by new upstream versions since a long > time but I was never happy enough about the packaging of this to do the > final upload. Currently the largest stumbling stone which prevents me from > uploading the currently available packaging is, that in /usr/lib/ugene > several libraries end up as unversioned lib*.so files. In some previous > build cycles I did lintian was even warning about this but this warning > somehow magically vanished. > > I also invented a patch to use the Debian packaged sqlite which > definitely needs testing. The package builds with this patch but I have > no idea how to test the functionality. It also should be propagated > upstream. > > Hardening is another open problem as well as some more lintian warnings. > In addition to the chance to show up in the advent calendar I'm offering > a free (as in beer) beer for the brave packager who might finish ugene > which IMHO should end up with an upload to unstable instead of > experimental. I am having a quick look at ugene, it seems that it embeds samtools (src/libs_3rdparty/samtools/src/samtools), which is packaged in Debian already > >> Furthermore I would like to mention another page[3] with lots of information >> about Debian Med packages. Besides the list of RC bugs you can also >> see packages that can not be built on a Debian architecture, >> packages that are not allowed to migrate from unstable to testing >> (and thus won't be included in the next release) and packages with a >> new upstream version. I think those packages need some care as well. > +1 > >> As soon as I get the notice of a closed case I will record that in >> our Advent calendar[4]. In contrast to normal calendars, let us fill >> this special one with lots of good deeds. Maybe we can hide at least >> one number of a closed case behind every door. > That would be very cool. > >> PS. The fun starts not until December 1st :-). > Which does not mean that updating some packages or fixing some bug would > not be fun even before. ;-) > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > >> [1]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=debian-med-packaging%40lists.alioth.debian.org&archive=no&raw=yes&bug-rev=yes&pend-exc=fixed&pend-exc=done >> [2]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=maint&data=debian-med-packaging%40lists.alioth.debian.org&archive=no&pend-exc=done&sev-inc=critical&sev-inc=grave&sev-inc=serious >> [3]http://udd.debian.org/dmd.cgi?email=debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org >> [4]http://debian-med.alteholz.de/advent
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