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

[Alex Mestiashvili]

On 05/04/2011 11:48 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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.
>
>    

I agree , I had a look on samtools source and it also provides 
libbam-dev package .
So I think the best solution is just to include sam.h to the libbam-dev 
package .

If you think this sounds good I'll submit the bug request for this .

Regards ,
Alex