Hi Martin, On 2020-11-17 15:59, Maarten L. Hekkelman wrote: > Initially I was, but now I'm not so sure. In fact, I'm currently > rewriting that part. > > I used to use mrc to store mmcif_pdbx dictionary files inside an > executable. But those dictionaries change very often and so I now think > it is better to have cron job polling for these files weekly and store > them in /var/cache/libcifpp/ > > Lintian is however complaining a little over this choice, /var/cache is > not a very common location to store stuff. But I guess this is OK?
I am not sure about /var/cache approach and cronjob polls. I understand the need to keep mmcif_pdbx up-to-date, but I think lintian complaints are rarely baseless. I am adding debian-med@ to CC, maybe someone has a better solution? Packaging mmcif_pdbx as a package of its own would be an option. However, to keep it up-to-date in stable Debian release one would have to backport it there often, and I am not sure release managers would allow that. There are packages like tzdata that get frequent updates and backports, but tzdata is security-sensitive. Best, Andrius
