[Debian-med-packaging] cufflinks package missing header file

[Andreas Tille]

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 11:13:41AM +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> trying to make a package for cufflinks I realized that it uses sam.h  
> file from source of another package - samtools and sam.h isn't available  
> in any binary package .

I have not checked the content - but there is a samtools package.

> Can I for example keep sam.h in the debian directory and have in  
> debian/rules directives to include the file in the build process ?
> sam.h has the MIT license .
>
> here is the official way to build cufflinks .
> http://cufflinks.cbcb.umd.edu/tutorial.html
>
> Any other ideas ?

If you ask me the best solution would be to tweak samtools packaging
in a way which is helpful to build cufflinks.  Perhaps you need to
create a samtools-dev package.  (But it's all wild guessing because
I have no time to check.)

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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