[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#874845: [clonalframe] Future Qt4 removal from Buster

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Xavier,

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 01:38:57PM +0100, Xavier Didelot wrote:
> Yes it would make sense to package ClonalFrameML instead of
> ClonalFrame, if that's not too much work of course.

It was not really much work.  ClonalFrameML is now in Debian new queue.
I realised that the README.md says the code is GPL but most source code
files say LGPL - may be you fix this discrepancy.

I also made some minor patches which I'd recommend to take over:

  https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/clonalframeml.git/tree/debian/patches

A bit problematic is the creation of version.h.  At package build time
I'm not in the Git repository and thus creating version.h fails.  It
might make more sense to include it into the download tarball.  For the
moment I'm injecting the Debian package revision into version.h.

To be clear about the clonalframe which contained a GUI:  Do you
recommend to remove it at all from Debian or would you consider some
porting effort to Qt5 a sensible thing to do?  I had no problems with
other software and may be it is done in about 30min which I would
spent to support some existing users.

Kind regards

      Andreas.


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