Control: severity -1 normal Control: tags -1 - ftbfs Control: retitle -1 RM: mrs -- ROM, incompatible with current libzeep
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 08:10:11AM +0100, Maarten L. Hekkelman wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: serious > Tags: ftbfs > Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past) > > MRS is an information retrieval system, used to index terabytes of text based > databanks on a single machine. Mostly used in the medical and biological > world. > > The version of MRS in currently in Debian is based on libzeep version 3. > Libzeep was in fact a spin off project from MRS. > > I stopped development of MRS in 2012 when I switched to a new employer but I > took libzeep with me. Since then, libzeep has evolved and changed a lot and > now compatibility with MRS is broken. > > I've submitted the new version of libzeep into debian (it is currently in > unstable) but now MRS no longer builds and so I request to remove it from > Debian until it is updated. > > regards, -maarten
