[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#907624: What ffindex do we want to package

[Steffen Möller]

Hi Andreas,

the reverse dependency HH-suite failed to compile with the ffindex 
version Debian shipped.

I have no feelings about it. It should just work :)  The HH-suite is 
about structure prediction from sequence homology, which I found we 
should continue to offer in our distribution 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HH-suite 
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/hhsuite . Are there other reverse 
dependencies for ffindex in our distribution?

Priority is the HH-suite. Then ffindex. If difficulties surface anywhere 
then we have initiate some head scratching / banging. If there is 
nothing happening somewhere that I don't know about then I would leave 
it as it is.

Cheers,

Steffen

On 19.12.18 09:53, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after reading https://github.com/soedinglab/ffindex_soedinglab/issues/4
> I came to the conclusion that we somehow picked the wrong fork of
> ffindex.  For me it seems very probable that if we pick the old codebase
> bug #907624 which was introduced when choosing this will vanish if we
> revert to the previously packaged code base.  I have a local commit
> which is doing this:
>
>
> diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
> index 6a26115..c409f4f 100644
> --- a/debian/changelog
> +++ b/debian/changelog
> @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
> +ffindex (0.9.9.7+sog+git20160415.14274c9-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
> +
> +  * The previous location on Github was an improperly choosen fork
> +    (see https://github.com/soedinglab/ffindex_soedinglab/issues/4)
> +    Here the version is now named "0.9.9.7+sog" (Saved On Github)
> +    to make it alphabethically later than the previous one.
> +
> + -- Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>  Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:16:09 +0100
> +
>   ffindex (0.9.9.7+soedinglab+git20180802.74550c8-1) unstable; urgency=medium
>   
>     * Fix watch file (version should actually be +git20171201.74550c8 but
> diff --git a/debian/watch b/debian/watch
> index 91b4f38..b47f123 100644
> --- a/debian/watch
> +++ b/debian/watch
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>   version=4
>   
> -opts="mode=git,pretty=0.9.9.7+soedinglab+git%cd.%h" \
> -    https://github.com/soedinglab/ffindex_soedinglab.git HEAD
> +opts="mode=git,pretty=0.9.9.7+sog+git%cd.%h" \
> +    https://github.com/ahcm/ffindex.git HEAD
>
>
>
> Upstream at github.com/ahcm/ffindex was extremely quick to tag a
> release and so it is at least active.
>
> Steffen, was your pick intentional or did you just stumbled by chance
> over the other fork?  Are you OK with reverting to the old code?
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
> PS: I reported the segfault issue to the according fork anyway
>      https://github.com/soedinglab/ffindex_soedinglab/issues/7
>
>