[Debian-med-packaging] Mothur - Debian patches

[Andreas Tille]

Ahh, I found Tim's commits in mothur-lookup-files.  A separate package
as alternative to a multi-tarball source package would be fine as well,
thought.
   Andreas.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 03:03:22PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> [move to Debian Med packaging list for wider audience, Tomasz in CC since
>  he created the last mothur package]
> 
> The context are the *.pat data files for mothur.
> 
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 12:02:55PM +0100, Tim Booth wrote:
> > Hi Andreas,
> > 
> > 
> > > What part of the policy would conflict?
> > 
> > I always thought there was supposed to be a single upstream tarball per
> > package?  Or was this just a guideline?  My get-orig-source.sh fetches
> > the files individually and bundles them up.
> 
> A source package can consist of several upstream tarballs.  I
> *personally* have never used this (and I have no idea how to realise
> this with git-buildpackage and pristine-tar) but this is technically
> perfectly possible.
> 
> I'm afraid your get-orig-source script was not clear about this.  I
> might have removed it since I thought uscan would be enough.  Tomasz,
> would you volunteer to dive into the separate tarballs challenge or to
> you think a get-orig-source script would do the trick (since we need to
> repack the zip anyway I would not mind much about checksums etc.)
>  
> > Anyway, I've put what I have on to Alioth GIT for you so please take a
> > look.
> 
> Hmm, I do not see any commit of yours in
>    git://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/mothur.git
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas. 
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