[Debian-med-packaging] How to make meson accept that `pkg-config --cflags ` has empty result in case only /usr/include is needed

[Andreas Tille]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:31:10PM -0400, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 19 2018, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 
> >> > The HDFAtom::Initialize above is calling "group.Initialize" passing an
> >> > "H5::H5File&" as the first parameter, but there's no
> >> > "H5Group::Initialize (H5::H5File&...)" method declared.  This is a bug.
> >> > 
> >> > The code is too cryptic for me understand what the correct solution is
> >> > in this case.  There are a few possibilities (creating a HDFFile first,
> >> > iterating over the available groups, etc.), but I'm not sure.
> >> > 
> >> > I'd report this upstream.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for your hint - I did so in
> >> 
> >>     https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/blasr_libcpp/issues/166
> >
> > This issue was closed with the remark:
> >
> >    We don't support source builds. Please install blasr via bioconda as the README states. Thank you.
> >
> > and than they closed the issue tracker at all (Github says 404 and the
> > issues entry vanished).  Pretty unhelpful and I wonder how bioconda
> > might magically resolve conflicting definitions.
> 
> Oh, wow.  What do they mean by "we don't support source builds"?  The
> user can't build the software?  This doesn't seem so free to me...

Its rather:  The user is alone to fix the bugs in our releases since the
license is actually free.  I think its "the other end of friendlyness"
you can find in Free Software - scoring extra points by disabling the
bug tracker.  They probably even do not want to know about their bugs.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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