[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#848236: Remaining issue with gbrowse - any help (Was: Urgent call to BioPerl users (Was: Bug#848236: src:gbrowse: ...)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Lincoln,

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 04:25:46PM -0500, Lincoln Stein wrote:
> The bug in the memory adaptor that Scott found turns out to have been from
> using the old perl 1.6.9 installed by the Debian package. Updating to 1.7.1
> (1.007001) fixes the problem.
> 
> I have merged all GBrowse changes into git version 2.56 and have made a
> CPAN release. I think you can go ahead and package it.

thanks a lot for your work on this.

For the Debian packaging[1] I imported the new version and tried to
adapt the patches[2] (BTW, I have no idea whether any previous
maintainer of the package pointed to it but some of these might be
interesting to integrate into the upstream code).

Since I learned from Perl team (in CC) that I can exclude tests via

   debian/tests/pkg-perl/smoke-skip

I tried to use this feature.  Unfortunately this does not work as
expected - at least in the build process.  Could anybody with better
Perl skills than me please have a look at the failed build time tests?

Thanks to all who provided help so far to finally fix gbrowse for the
next Debian stable release

     Andreas.

[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/gbrowse.git
[2] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/gbrowse.git/tree/debian/patches

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