[Debian-med-packaging] Script extensions (Was: Bug#730722: t-coffee: will become a friend of ncbi-blast+ package)

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:39:09PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> I think that it is a pure waste of time.

I'd invite everybody to (re)read my posting about this:

   http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/04/msg00103.html
 
> How many of our packages have been reimplemented in a different language,
> keeping a full API compatibility and without changing the name ?  To my
> knowledge, non of them.

That's not the only point of the arguing (see above)

> I am not willing to do that extra work of maintaining pedantic patches or to
> deal with the incompatibilities and removed myself from the Uploaders of
> t-coffee.

That's fine we can not and will not try to force volunteers.

> Let me repeat it: most of my colleagues are not using Debian and this idiotic
> policy

I'm a bit concerned that you, as a (former) policy editor are
attributing our policy as idiotic.  I'd prefer a more moderate wording.

> is making my work incompatble with their machines and our clusters.  You
> know, at work, we have to produce.  Using Debian is sometimes an obstacle to
> this, and this really annoys me.  Let's be practical, please ?

I'd like to invite you to (re)read another mail I wrote:

   http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/05/msg00042.html

In short: We could conserve the original names in

   /usr/lib/debian-med

and symlink with proper policy names to /usr/bin.  I'd volunteer to do
patches if people agree to do this in principle but do not mind doing
the necessary work.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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