[Debichem-devel] Bug#994288: Bug#994288: Bug#994288: libinchi1: feature request, add InChI trust, reference executable

[Michael Banck]

Hi Norwid,

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 09:03:45PM +0000, Norwid Behrnd wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2021 20:28:30 +0200
> Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 10:40:02AM +0300, Andrius Merkys wrote:
> > > Control: owner -1 !
> > > Control: tags -1 + pending
> > > 
> > > Hi Norwid,
> > > 
> > > On 2021-09-16 09:26, Norwid Behrnd wrote:  
> > > >> Am I right to assume you are requesting here for the 'inchi_main'
> > > >> executable being included in Debian packages for inchi?  
> > > > 
> > > > Yes, this is .true. and you are right.  If technical possible and
> > > > InChI trust's license permitting, I would like to install their .sdf
> > > > to InChI conversion packaged for Debian such that this may be run
> > > > from the CLI.  
> > > 
> > > Thanks for clarification. I have just packaged the executable in a new
> > > binary package, libinchi-bin, it how has to pass the NEW queue.  
> > 
> > A bit late, but maybe "inchi-bin" or even juust "inchi" would be also
> > appropriate?
> > 
> > 
> > Michael
> 
> I'm not sure if your question is about how to name the eventual
> package, or about how to launch the executable the package provides.

It was about the package.
 
[...]

> On the other hand, I interpret the package tracker's entry
> 
> "NEW/unstable: 1.03+dfsg-4"
> 
> on
> 
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/inchi
> 
> as if the inchi executable is going to be included within the already
> existing entry `synaptic` lists as `libinchi1`

No, there will (or is, it got manually processed already I think) be a
new package "libinchi-bin" which ships the executable.


Michael