[Debian-med-packaging] Convenience code copy of samtools and tabix in r-bioc-rsamtools.

[Olivier Sallou]

On 10/30/2013 10:38 AM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 09:24:04AM +0000, Andreas Tille a écrit :
>> Author: tille
>> Date: 2013-10-30 09:24:04 +0000 (Wed, 30 Oct 2013)
>> New Revision: 15067
>>
>> Modified:
>>    trunk/packages/R/r-bioc-rsamtools/trunk/debian/control
>>    trunk/packages/R/r-bioc-rsamtools/trunk/debian/rules
> Hi Andreas,
>
> as you probably noticed, this package contains a convenience code copy of
> samtools and tabix.
>
> If you are lucky, you may be able to completely deltete it and pull the
> libbam.a from libbam-dev instead.  In that case, it may be useful to implement
> the Built-Using field, so that we remember to rebuild r-bioc-rsamtools when
> libbam-dev gets updated (rarely).
Can't we get an automated way to rebuild it when setting Built-Using ?

Indeed, getting information in d/control is nice, but we (at least me)
will certainly often forget to do so.

Olivier

Olivier
>
> For tabix, there is no libtabix-dev package yet, but that may be doable.
>
> Ah, and I see libbcf.a as well.  This one can be build from samtools.
> Quick-and-dirty way would be to put it in libbam-dev, otherwise we need to make
> a new package with a trip to the NEW queue.
>
> Cheers,
>

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