[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#962085: bcalm, kissplice: both ship /usr/bin/bcalm

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Nilesh,

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 03:05:34PM +0530, Nilesh Patra wrote:
> 
> When I was just drafting the mail regarding this, David replied to this
> bug. I suppose they are already on this.
> Thanks David!

Yes, thanks David. ;-)
 
> > Or is it
> > just a code copy included into kissplice?  We also should remove
> > the code copy of gatb-core and rather link against the Debian
> > packaged lib.
> 
> Yep, probably we should remove gatb-core and symlink it/tweak the build
> system if need be.

I guess tweaking the build system is the way to go.  A word of warning:
gatb-core authors are not keen on a stable ABI and consistent
versioning.  So if you volunteer to work on this I'd recommend to start
right now ignoring the bcalm issue.  Sometimes it turns out a newer Git
clone than we have packaged is needed (which in the worst case might
break other packages using gatb-core).  So if you see a chance to work
on it independently its a good idea to do so.

> I simply fixed the autopkgtest and called it a day, assuming everything
> else is in place.
> 
> Looks like my assumption was wrong, and I apologize for not checking rest
> of the stuff, I really should have.

There is no need to write apology statements like this here.  We all
are human and I personally do not see any time to spent time into writing
such things. ;-)

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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