[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#971542: Please enable HTSlib plugins

[John Marshall]

Source: htslib
Version: 1.11-1

I would recommend building HTSlib with plugins enabled. Doing this will activate HTSlib's plugin mechanism so that the Debian-supplied libhts.so will be able to use any other file access plugins that the user may have installed, and will move e.g. the libcurl and associated library dependencies to hfile_libcurl.so (which libhts.so will dynamically load) which simplifies linking against libhts.a for other programs. This can be done by adding the following configure options:

    ./configure --enable-plugins --with-plugin-path='/usr/local/libexec/htslib:$(plugindir)'

See HTSlib's INSTALL file for details. Packagers such as yourselves should set with-plugin-path thus so that plugins in both /usr/local and /usr will be used; If Debian still folds /usr/libexec into /usr/lib or nearby, you may wish to adjust both --with-plugin-dir and --with-plugin-path.

Thanks,

    John