[Debian-med-packaging] planning (a) hsqldb transition(s)

[Laszlo Kajan]

* Ok, I will try to remember and make an hmmer2 'drop out' of my course here - I actually have it already:

  https://rostlab.org/owiki/index.php/Packages # hmmer2 in that table

  I will have the students review it and commit the debianization into the svn.

* Naming the new hmmer (>3) package hmmer3 would be good to make users aware of the incompatibility. There are dependencies on hmmer in stable
and testing, the same set. I doubt though that those deps in testing have all been updated to work with hmmer (>3). Rather some may well be
broken because hmmer(<<3) is not compatible with hmmer(>3) and you can't just replace these with each other.

  Sure someone should investigate this, or get in touch with the maintainers of the dependent packages, but you can also play it safe and keep
hmmer(<3) named hmmer and name the new hmmer(>3) package hmmer3. ==> I think I would favour this solution most.

  hmmer (>3) was packaged by the Debian Med team - any of the uploaders (Matthew, Nelson, Andreas, Charles, Eric): what do you think?

Best regards,

Laszlo

On 02/05/12 13:23, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Laszlo,
> 
> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:34:35AM +0200, Laszlo Kajan wrote:
>> Ah, yes, about shared libraries. librarynamesoversion (or libraryname-soversion).
>>
>> * I think this should be applied to hmmer as well, hmmer (in testing) -> hmmer3, since that's not compatible with hmmer(<< 3).
>>
>> I have stuff that depends on hmmer (<<3), so I would need both hmmer(<<3) and hmmer/hmmer3(>=3) to coexist in one installation. Could this be
>> resolved before the freeze?
> 
> I remember that we talked about this in Southport.  Because you admitted
> that you are using it yourself: Could you prepare a hmmer2 package that
> fits your needs and let me check?  I'm not sure how important it would
> be to rename the current hmmer (== hmmer-latest) to hmmer3 (from my
> perception it could remain unversioned, but you can decide on a way more
> educated basis as an active user).
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>        Andreas.
> 
> PS: Thanks for your MoM advertising to Maarten.  I would also MoM-mentoring
>     about the hmmer-split if there is somebody who is actually willing to
>     do the work.  Currently other things are higher on my agenda than doing
>     this myself completely.
>