[Debian-med-packaging] Tim - don't update the archive ... qiime Re: [med-svn] r7572 - trunk/packages/qiime

[Tim Booth]

Morning All,

I'm sorry, but not surprised, to hear that Qiime is being troublesome.

To re-iterate one point, as far as I can tell all the various CDBS
plugins and python-support/python-central/python2 helpers for DH all
just end up copying the various Python libraries
to /usr/share/pyshared/qiime.  There is no special magic or byte-code
compiling going on, and although you can try to produce a tidy looking
rules file, the package is never going to be neat simply because Qiime
is a mess.

So Qiime is inevitably going to need a hand-crafted rules file, but if
the starting point for that file is "dh --with python2" then I'm unable
to use it on Bio-Linux just now.  I think it would be really helpful if
someone could try building the package with "python2" and then with
older "python-support" and see what changes actually result in the
final .deb.  I'd wager not much.  I can do this myself, but it's not a
priority for me.

> > So, we should really set the message across that Debian has the
> > same qiime that Bio-Linux has.

Qiime mostly uses its dependencies for the heavy lifting, so the crucial
thing is to have consistent versions of the dependent packages.  I thing
progress here has been very good.

> If I remember right the previous upload was refused by ftpmaster because
> of improper handling of conflicts with denoiser.  

Oops - I hoped I'd done this properly.  Qiime 1.3 should cleanly replace
and provide the now obsolete denoiser package.  Any idea where I went
wrong?

Cheers,

TIM

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