[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#973343: metaphlan2-data: Can not be installed non-interactively

[Charles Plessy]

Package: metaphlan2-data
Version: 2.6.0+ds-4
Severity: important

Hi all,

I tried to create a container with the whole set of packages
recommended by med-bio, but it failed because metaphlan2-data can not
be installed non-interactively.

> Setting up metaphlan2-data (2.6.0+ds-4) ...
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
> debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog based frontend cannot be used. at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 76.)
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
> Configuring metaphlan2-data
> ---------------------------
> 
> This binary Debian package is using a different dataformat than it is used by 
> the package metaphlan2.  To use the data with metaphlan2 a conversion is needed.
>  The conversion script takes about 20min. If you decide to delay this conversion
> you need to manually call
> 
>    /usr/sbin/metaphlan2-data-convert
> 
> 
> after the installation process has finished.  Otherwise metaphlan2 is not 
> usable.
> 
> Should the database be created right now? [yes/no] 

I think that it would be great to fix that in Stable.  Maybe by
just removing the dependency of med-bio to metahplan2-data there ?

Have a nice day,

Charles

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