[Debian-med-packaging] Comments regarding mrbayes_3.1.2-1_amd64.changes

[Alexander Reichle-Schmehl]

Hi!

Am 31.03.2011 14:07, schrieb Andreas Tille:

> I agree that carb.r is a bit strange and probably there is no real harm
> done if removed.  The only reference to a string "carb" is in
> mrbayes.codewarrior - which probably could be removed as well for our
> purposes.  Once you accepted the package (thanks for it): Should we wait
> for a new version and rebuild the upstream source to strip this file.
> My guess is that upstream would prefer to keep it in their tarball because
> it seems of any use for Mac OS X.  However, it seems that upstream does
> not release new versions in the near future (it is some kind of default
> tool and definitely used by biologists, but development has stalled).
> 
> So should we do something about this or simply ignore the issue as "not
> relevant enough to care for it"?

For reference:  Beside comments, this file carb.r only contains the
following lines:

====
type 'carb' {
};

resource 'carb'(0) {
};
====

I don't know enough about Mac OS X, nor do I actually know, what that's
for a file (it doesn't look like R to me?).  But it doesn't seem to do
anything, and I actually doubt, that it has the "level of creativity"
(What's the English word for "Schöpfungshöhe"?) to be copyrightable.  So
from my point of view, you can ignore it for now, but should clarify it
for the next upload, whenever that happens.

Any other opinions from the rest of the FTP Team?


Best regards,
  Alexander