[Debichem-devel] Bug#982567: openms build-depends on removed package.

[Michael R. Crusoe]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 22:54:54 +0000 peter green <plugwash at p10link.net> wrote:
> Package: openms
> Version: 2.6.0+cleaned1-2
> Severity: serious
>
> openms build-depends on seqan-dev which was built by the sequan source
> package, which was removed from unstable and testing recently. The person
> requesting the removal stated that "There are no other users of seqan 1.x
> in Debian." but it seems this was not correct.

I'm very sorry for this. I don't know why my search didn't reveal that
openms had never upgraded to SeqAn 2 or 3.


> I tried removing the build-dependency as there did not appear to be
> a corresponding runtime depedency, but that made configure fail.
>
> I then tried with libseqan3-dev but that also made configure fail
>
> I then tried with libseqan2-dev, in that case configure succeeded
> but the build failed with

There is no smooth upgrade path between major SeqAn versions, so I don't
recommend trying that further.

I suggest adding the parts of SeqAn needed to debian/ as a quick(er) fix.


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Michael R. Crusoe
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