[Debian-med-packaging] Please upload NEW hhsuite

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:47:13PM +0100, Andreas Hauser wrote:
> lkajan wrote @ Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:15:42 +0100:
> > 
> > I know. I've notified upstream (Andreas Hauser) about this. I am waiting for his confirmation/help with what is indeed arch indep and what is
> > not. Once I see this clearly I will bring out an hhsuite-data pack (arch=all) for those parts and put them into /usr/share/hhsuite-data. I will
> > also have to patch paths though so that the data is still found where expected - something I am /not/ looking forward to... this is the main
> > reason why there is no hhsuite-data yet.
> 
> I would expect endian issues with some files.

Could you please be a bit more verbose about this?  I only found three
files data/do_not_delete.p* which seem to be binary files.  All others
are text files and should be handled properly by any architecture.
 
> Other than that, we try to be friendly to users installing on clusters
> or $HOME just doing a make install INSTALL_DIR=., by not using to many paths.

I think we agreed here to use symlinks to handle different locations if
needed.  In any case it can not harm if you also try to follow FHS model
for organising files and use $(prefix)/share instead of $(prefix)/lib
for architecture independant data.

> There is also extensive documentation about the current path setup
> since we expect many users without intense knowledge about computing. 
> 
> It would therefore be nice to do this somewhat coordinated, if it has to be
> done.

Yes - coordination was the reason why Laszlo sended his mail in the
first place.
 
> Besides, do you intend to also make a package of the databases?

I can not speak for Laszlo but from my perspective I would say "Yes, if
license permits."  (Somebody has just to do the work to support users
best.)
 
> Yes, you can also get FFindex via:
> http://pubshare.genzentrum.lmu.de/scientific_computing/software/ffindex/

Laszlo, in this case I would start with ffindex in a separate source
package first and ignore the copy inside hhsuite (if possible).

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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