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

[Xavier Didelot]

Dear Andreas,

Thanks very much for your work on this. I have added your patches to
the github version. For the version.h file I think including the
debian package revision number is the right thing to do since we can't
call git.

Concerning the old ClonalFrame, I would recommend removing it
completely since I am no longer going to maintain it and it is
superseeded by ClonalFrameML.

Best wishes,
Xavier

On 21 September 2017 at 13:28, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> wrote:
> 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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