[Debian-med-packaging] samtools i386-buildable

Afif Elghraoui afif at ghraoui.name
Thu Sep 17 08:52:36 UTC 2015



> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 07:38:24AM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
>>>  - 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.
>>
>> Since the upstream name is still available as a symlink, would you
>> accept the addition of something to README.Debian or an apt-get note (I
>> don't know what they're called) that warns about this upon installation?
> 

In the interest of not dragging out this issue-- I'd be fine if you
reverted those two commits that implement the changes you're uneasy
about. My main concern for samtools is getting it to build on i386.

Thanks and regards
Afif

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