[Mged-mage-perl] Packaging Bio-MAGE and Bio-MAGE-Utils for the Debian operating system.

[Charles P. <cha...@pl...>]

Dear MAGE-Perl hackers,

I am currently preparing installation packages for Bio-MAGE and
Bio-MAGE-Utils on Debian platforms. I am in the final phase of this,
where software packages are ready and I proofcheck that Debian can
freely redistribute them. While in Bio-MAGE all the files have a header
indicating their license, it is not the case in Bio-MAGE-Utils except
for the files in the MAGE/Tools/ directory. Can you confirm the license
of the other files of Bio-MAGE-Utils?

I have another question for Bio-MAGE-Utils: currently Makefile.PL
indicates that its modules are in the Bio::MAGE::Utils namespace.
However, not only installation does not work with this parameter, but
third party programs such as tab2mage seem to expect the utilities in
Bio::MAGE. For this reason, the following patch will be applied for
Debian:

--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # See lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm for details of how to influence
 # the contents of the Makefile that is written.
 WriteMakefile(
-    'NAME'              => 'Bio::MAGE::Utils',
+    'NAME'              => 'Bio::MAGE',
     'VERSION'           => '20030502.0',
     'PREREQ_PM'         => {Tie::IxHash=>1.21},
     ($] >= 5.005 ?

Can you confirm that this change is correct?

Have a nice day,

--
Charles Plessy
Debian-Med packaging team
Wako, Saitama, Japan