[Debian-med-packaging] samtools i386-buildable

[Charles Plessy]

Le Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 03:04:41PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> Le Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 10:27:49PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui a écrit :
> > 
> > I have backported upstream patches to enable i386-building of samtools
> > 1.2, fixed a problem where consecutive rebuilds of the package would
> > fail, and set up symlinks so that the scripts with language extensions
> > could also be called without them.
> > 
> > Would you (or anyone else) mind uploading it? I still need to work on
> > htslib to be able to get all these packages migrated to testing.
> 
> Hi Afif and everybody,
> 
> I would like to do it myself, maybe today, maybe this week.

Hi Afif,

I had a quick look and I have two comments:

 - about programs with language extensions removed, I think that it is a
   disservice to our users: if they start to use them by mistake in scripts
   that they intend to share with collaborators, these scripts will be
   guaranteed to fail on non-Debian platforms... let's save our users from
   this.

 - about files that make consecutive rebuilds difficult: these come from the
   fact that, like for htslib, the source package's Git repository tracks the
   upstream Git repository in GitHub (I will document this).  Between two
   builds I simply reset the directory with 'git checkout' and 'git clean'.
   Would it be OK to keep these files in order to avoid potential merge
   failures from the master branch ?

Have a nice day,

Charles

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan