[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#595613: Bug#595613: Moving all EMBOSS libraries to /usr/lib/emboss/lib ?

[Steffen Möller]

 Hi Charles,

sounds good to me, too! The Java community has lots of such internal
libraries and your issues seem to be of the same nature. Have many
thanks for your efforts,

Steffen

On 09/13/2010 07:17 AM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> the EMBOSS libraries sometimes break backwards compatibility, and are not used
> by other packages than emboss and embassy-*, which have the same upstream
> maintainers and are released together the same day.
>
> In our Debian packages, I propose to move the EMBOSS libraries from /usr/lib,
> for instance in /usr/lib/emboss/lib, and to merge the packages libajax6,
> libajax6-dev, libnucleus6, libnucleus6-dev, into the emboss-lib package. This
> will also prevent package renaming or confusion when versions 7 and higher of
> EMBOSS will be released.
>
> Together with a change of section, it will also make the EMBOSS libraries
> private from a Debian point of view, and solve our problem with emboss-lib that
> currently does not respect the Policy with the eplplot library (a fork of the
> plplot library that should not be used outside EMBOSS).
>
> Since I am not very familiar with library packaging, I seek your comments.
>
> Have a nice day,
>