[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#813972: libncl-dev and libncarg-dev: error when trying to install together

[Mark Holder]

Hi Paul,
I'm sending this to you to get you in the loop [see thread below] on a
name conflict for the NCL.
Both "ncl" and "nexus" are used by other libraries.
Perhaps phylo-ncl or phylo-nexus could work.

(or of course, it could be left to users of debian to compile from source).

all the best,
Mark


On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> thanks a lot for the ultra fast response.
>
> Could you come up with a better renaming suggestion and may be also put
> the original author in CC?
>
> Its to bad to have two different scientific data formats with the same
> name.  I wonder whether there is some typical prefix of suffix to
> differentiate these formats like bio-nexus or genome-nexus / nexus-bio
> or nexus-genome.
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 01:40:59PM -0600, Mark Holder wrote:
>> Hi,
>> In principle, I don't object to renaming it. libnexus is already used
>> for a different tool. see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libnexus/
>>
>> I'm not the original author of NCL. I'm just the maintainer. So that
>> makes me a little leery about changing the name of the library.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
>> > Hi Mark,
>> >
>> > the Debian Med team has packaged your NCL library for the Debian
>> > distribution.  We received a bug report that there is a naming conflict
>> > with
>> >
>> >     http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/
>> >
>> > My suggestion to solve this conflict would be to rename libncl to
>> > libnexus.  In my opinion it would make sense to rename it in general
>> > since it is a more speaking name than ncl.
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>> >
>> > Kind regards and thanks for providing this code as free software
>> >
>> >      Andreas.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:17:17AM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail, and violates
>> >> sections 7.6.1 and 10.1 of the policy. An optimal solution would
>> >> consist in only one of the packages installing that file, and renaming
>> >> or removing the file in the other package. Depending on the
>> >> circumstances you might also consider Replace relations or file
>> >> diversions. If the conflicting situation cannot be resolved then, as a
>> >> last resort, the two packages have to declare a mutual
>> >> Conflict. Please take into account that Replaces, Conflicts and
>> >> diversions should only be used when packages provide different
>> >> implementations for the same functionality.
>> >>
>> >> Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages
>> >> (according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be
>> >> slightly out of sync):
>> >>
>> >>   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncl.a
>> >>
>> >> This bug has been filed against both packages. If you, the maintainers of
>> >> the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will
>> >> resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package. You may then
>> >> also register in the BTS that the other package is affected by the bug.
>> >>
>> >> -Ralf.
>> >>
>> >> PS: for more information about the detection of file overwrite errors
>> >> of this kind see http://qa.debian.org/dose/file-overwrites.html.
>> >>
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>> >
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mark Holder
>>
>> mtholder at gmail.com
>> mtholder at ku.edu
>> http://phylo.bio.ku.edu/mark-holder
>>
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Mark Holder

mtholder at gmail.com
mtholder at ku.edu
http://phylo.bio.ku.edu/mark-holder

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