[Debichem-devel] mdanalysis_1.0.0+dfsg1-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Tue 03 Nov 2020 at 08:51PM +08, Drew Parsons wrote:

> On 2020-11-01 07:00, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> +----------------------+
>> |   REJECT reasoning   |
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>>
>> Looks like maintainer/install_hole.sh could go into contrib but not
>> main.  If
>> it's not needed for the Debian package then best to just remove.
>
>
> Hi Sean, the maintainer subdir is just scripts upstream uses to make its
> own packages, e.g. conda packages.  We're not using it at all.
>
> HOLE is optional functionality, accessible through
> package/MDAnalysis/analysis (analysis/hole2 in particular), only
> activated if the hole executable happens to be available.
> It's not core functionality. The remainder of MDAnalysis runs normally
> (free). I don't think we gain so much by separating out the hole
> components.  What do you think?

I'm afraid that isn't relevant.  We can't include code in main which has
non-free dependencies, whether or not it gets installed in the binary
package.

-- 
Sean Whitton