[Debian-med-packaging] Fwd: Seqan2 (Was: Bug#798637: what about the ROM request)

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi Kevin,

thanks for getting back in touch.

[...]
>>> Please also ask removal of seqan-apps coming from seqan (1.x) package
>>> to enable testing migration.
>>
>> Just took a look — I wonder why 
>> https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=seqan also lists
>> seqan-dev as missing for the archs in question, but in fact was
>> always arch:all. This shouldn’t be RM’d, right?! I can see that
>> seqan-apps is now built by src:seqan2, but AFAICS the old seqan-dev
>> can and should stay?

Do you have any confirmation/opinions on that?

>>> I hope to see seqan 1 and 2 in testing once I'm back. :-)
>>
>> So do I, I’ll also make sure to add the seqan2 CMake modules so we
>> can build other stuff depending on seqan2.
> 
> I've recently been in correspondence[1] with the developers about the
> documentation. They seem keen to ensure that it is shipped and old or non-DFSG
> parts removed. Their ETA for this is "November", so we'll wait and see.

OK. I guess we can still add another libseqan2-doc package once this is
ready. Still I think we should make the libseqan2-dev itself available
to allow other tools to build.

BTW, do you want to look at #838340 or should I? It looks like there is
a Conflicts declaration missing...? Given that it's unlikely that the
same files provide the same API in both SeqAn 1 and 2, I guess the case:

"Conflicts should be used when two packages provide the same file and
will continue to do so"

from Policy 7.4 is applicable. Alternatively one might rename the
directory in /usr/include to include the version number. This would also
resolve the conflict but that's probably not what the tools building
with SeqAn expect...

Cheers
Sascha


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