[Debian-med-packaging] status of meme Debian packaging

[Faheem Mitha]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hi Faheem,
>
> thanks for your interest into Debian Med.
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 01:39:24AM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was looking for a Debian package of meme, and discovered there is
>> some packaging at
>>
>> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/meme/tr
>>
>> I'm writing to ask - is this packaging ready for use? The current
>> version of meme as I write is 4.9.
>
> I have to admit that I'm not sure whether version 4.9 will work with the
> packaging.  The last time I checked it was with version 4.8.  I can
> confirm that this package has high priority also for BioLinux and I
> could imagine that we will try to push it at our next Sprint[1].
>
> If you honestly want to try the packaging I'd recommend checking out
> the debian/ dir increase the version number in debian/changelog and
> try debuild.  Feel free to report problems with this approach here
> and we are also interested in case of success.
>
> Please stay in contact about meme with us

I got this error with 4.9. It might be an upstream bug. Any idea how to 
fix it, or should I just use 4.8?

                                                         Regards, Faheem

test -z "/usr/doc/examples" || /bin/mkdir -p 
"/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/debian/tmp/usr/doc/examples"
  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 At.fa sample-kabat.seq sample-glam2-aln.dna 
sample-glam2-aln.protein sample-dna-Klf1.fa sample-dna-motif.meme-io 
sample-protein-motif.meme-io 
'/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/debian/tmp/usr/doc/examples'
make  install-data-hook
make[7]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/doc/examples'
tar xzvf centrimo_example_output_files.tgz -C /usr/doc/examples
tar: /usr/doc/examples: Cannot chdir: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
make[7]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 2
make[7]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/doc/examples'
make[6]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2
make[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/doc/examples'
make[5]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/doc/examples'
make[4]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/doc/examples'
make[3]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/doc'
make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0'
dh_auto_install: make -j1 install 
DESTDIR=/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0/debian/tmp MEME_DB=/var/lib/meme 
returned exit code 2
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_install] Error 29
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/meme/meme-4.9.0'
make: *** [binary] Error 2
debuild: fatal error at line 1307:
couldn't exec fakeroot debian/rules: Bad file descriptor