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

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Wed 04 Nov 2020 at 02:13AM +08, Drew Parsons wrote:

> On 2020-11-04 01:15, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Tue 03 Nov 2020 at 08:51PM +08, Drew Parsons wrote:
>>
>>> On 2020-11-01 07:00, Sean Whitton wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>
>
> But it's not a dependency. As far as our package is concerned, there is
> no HOLE.

It's a dependency of that script, which is included in your package :)

-- 
Sean Whitton
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