[Debian-med-packaging] Fwd: python-biopython: broken symlinks

[Peter Cock]

FYI, in case my email below does not make it to the Debian tracker:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872222

Regards,

Peter

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:50 AM
Subject: python-biopython: broken symlinks
To: 872222 at bugs.debian.org


As part of Biopython 1.69 we renamed the extension-less text files to
*.rst and created symlinks intended for backward compatibility:

https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/91e7eb02c2bbc1b91949171947b226c9fa09ace2

https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/4677c7def7e906ae2494dfcc4ecd590f46050366

Both the *.rst files and the symlinks should be included in the
Biopython release tar-ball via our MANIFEST.in file:

https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/9e7a01dbd88d239c0efc397f924cbbc65d6ac8ee

My guess is that Debian needs to move/copy the new *.rst files now (eg
NEWS.rst), in addition to or instead of the old names which are now
symlinks (eg NEWS).

(As some point I'd be happy to remove the symlinks)

Peter