[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#947995: ncbi-entrez-direct: ncbi-entrez-direct FTBFS in testing/unstable

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Aaron,

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 02:40:41PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> > I think that's just a matter of setting $HOME to something sensible and
> > is probably less than 10min work for you.  Could you please take over
> > from here?
> 
> Thanks for calling this report to my attention; I don't follow
> debian-med-packaging as a whole, and evidently forgot to subscribe to
> this package.  I should be able to take care of this bug over the
> weekend.
> 
> However, I am not prepared to go ahead with the latest upstream version.
> even though there aren't any Debian patches to worry about merging.
> There are instead other complications here, primarily because upstream
> lacks a build system and because I took it upon myself to supply man
> pages per Policy 12.1 and don't want to throw them away or provide stale
> versions.
> 
> The good news is that I have pending changes to advance as far as
> 11.8.20190730; I just held off on pushing anything so I could have more
> freedom to rebase in case I belatedly discovered something I should have
> done earlier.

You know the package way better than me - feel free to roll back the
upstream version.  I'm just using the routine-update script to do some
regular enhancements to packaging and automatic lintian-brush calls.

If any of the commits was not helpful just rebase.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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