[Debian-med-packaging] Andreas pimping Ensembl packages

[William Spooner]

Hi Andreas,

Is there a Debian bug ticket for the libwww-perl issue?

Thanks,

Will

On 7 Dec 2011, at 19:08, Andreas Tille wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 04:32:57PM +0000, William Spooner wrote:
>>> Is there any chance to file a bug report against ensembl upstream
>>> somehow.  Even if it is not trivial it should be done somehow sooner or
>>> later because not doing so will strike back at some point in time.  This
>>> question is totally independant from Debian packaging or not (and it's
>>> not political but rather technical).
>> 
>> Ensembl are aware of the issue, and will fix in due course, unless we (Eagle) fix it first and Ensembl accept the patch. Sadly it is not a trivial fix; can we blame libwww-perl for breaking their interface between releases?
> 
> Sure you can blame libwww-perl for beeing guilty - but I doubt this wil
> finally help. :-)  However, it might be motivating and keep you happy
> while coding a proper patch if you are pretty sure who is the bad guy.
> 
>>> and what not.  I would like to keep a record in the mailing list which
>>> somehow says: libwww-perl5.808 is needed for the time beeing.  It would
>>> be great to add a link to the ensembl bug tracker (I can perfectly open
>>> a ticket if needed if you give me a hint how to do this).
>> 
>> I will raise a ticket with Ensembl helpdesk that can perhaps be used for this purpose.
> 
> Posting a link to this ticket to the Debian Med list will help us
> following the issue. 
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>     Andreas.
> 
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