[Debian-med-packaging] RFS: codonw

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Sascha,

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:37:18PM +0000, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> > 
> > apt-file search /usr/bin/cai | grep cai$
> > emboss: /usr/bin/cai
> 
> I see. This is really unfortunate.

Yes.
 
> > To avoid conflicts with five packages we need to move the tools to
> > /usr/lib/codonw and provide a wrapper script (as an example see the
> > phylip package).
> 
> Well, these ‘tools’ are only symlinks to the main executable causing it to behave differently when called via the link. The functionality is also available using command line switches in the main codonw executable. Do you think it would be acceptable to drop or rename (e.g. codonw-cai, codonw-tidy, etc.) the linked tools? This would be my preference but could probably break existing third party scripts.

IMHO the most flexible idea is to move these to

   /usr/lib/codonw

*and* provide the /usr/bin/codonw-* files as links.  This might require
a certain amount of patching in the code but should be doable.
 
> > I think upstream (if active currently) should made be
> > aware about this conflict.
> 
> I can contact them and bring it up.

May be you could find a sensible solution together with upstream.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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