[cctbxbb] Debian Package

[Radostan Riedel]

On Thu, 30. Aug 16:56, Marcin Wojdyr wrote:
> ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/opensource/
> They use autotools and I hope there should be no problems with
> packaging (let me know if you have any problems).
This looks nice. I'll give it a try and I'll see if we can get them into debian.

> I've added dates to the version numbers, so it's more or less proper versioning.
> Actually authors of the libraries don't have a strong need to care
> about versions, because the primary distribution channel is a complete
> ccp4 suite, which is versioned separately. But there are some versions
> and they are always increased. SO versions are not really maintained,
> just 0.0.0 in all cases.
OK. But this could be an issue. Would be nice if upstream were aware of the
versioning and would start to maintain it. 
In all cases versioning is an important indicator for API changes.