[Debian-med-packaging] BioJava Provides [Was: r10959 - trunk/packages/biojava/trunk/debian]

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Olivier,

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 06:56:00PM +0200, Olivier Sallou wrote:
> 
> Just some quick info on biojava packaging:
> 
> biojava 1.8: some sources are missing in source archive. I am in
> discussion in biojava mailing list...
> The issue is 1.8 depends on sources in 3.x

Uhmm.  The hackish solution would be to assemble everything in a
get-orig-source script however, I'd regard this fact as something that
should be solved upstream for the profit of all other users who want to
build the project from source.
 
> biojava 3: I have started packaging BUT there are some dependencies not
> in Debian (forester:http://code.google.com/p/forester/)
> So, I will have first topackage it (if possible), and see if there are
> other dependencies).

Life would be too simple if everything would went smoothly ...

BTW, I'm fine with any name choice of the virtual package if we just
have any such thing. 

Kind regards

        Andreas.
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