Guy, Andreas,
I pimped your diff. Novelties are:
* debian/rules cleans what make distclean left over
which is particularly helpful when not running from the orig.tar.gz
* cleaning config.sub and config.guess with clean, copying new one over
right before start of configure,
which makes the diff much nicer, too.
* providing manpages for fasta* which are all symbolic links to icpress.1
* doing -O3 rather than -O2 - which makes hell of a difference for some
applications (http://wiki.debian.net/?Boinc). This is a bit off standard
for Debian, though exonerate might well need it. It has not finished its
compilation on my machine yet, which is quite impressive.
* Removed most of debian/*.ex, debian/watch got an entry that I would
like you to verify URLwise.
* A RFP (request for packaging) went out, the changelog closes this.
* A README.Debian was written, that suggest to make extra packages for
iPCRess and C4 at some stage. Please change those lines to your liking.
* Lintian free, except for a problem with NEWS which is empty
moeller@latitude:~/src/exonerate/exonerate-1.0.0$ lintian
../exonerate_1.0.0-1_i386.deb
W: exonerate: zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory
usr/share/doc/exonerate/NEWS.gz
Some questions/comments:
* The link on your exonerate home page ~guy/exonerate/ to the Wiki page
of it seems to have problems and searching for it in EnsEMBL does not
work because exonerate's heavy involvement into everything
* It would be nice to have an overview of exonerate's production
applications within EnsEMBL, EnsEMBL compara and elsewhere.
* Wasn't exonerate part of Ewan's Wise tools at some stage? And what
happened to that? Is C4 now more en vogue than dynamite or do I get too
much confused now?
Thank you very much for supporting Debian so nicely.
Many greetings also to the others of the EnsEMBL team
Steffen
Guy Slater wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
>
>
>>Hello Guy,
>>
>>the Debian-Med project tries to include all free software which might
>>be relevant for medical care. This includes stuff for micro biology and
>>genetics as well. I've got a hint to your exonerate project at
>>
>> http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~guy/exonerate/
>>
>>I have seen that your are providing Debian packages on your site.
>>
>>My offer would be to move the package to the official Debian mirror to
>>get it included into the next official Debian version and by this into
>>the Debian-Med project
>>
>> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/
>>
>>If you like this it would be nice if you would send me your *.dsc and *.diff.gz
>>file which you used to build the packages. I would have a look at it and
>>might perhaps suggest some enhancements. You might decide whether you want
>>to maintain the Debian package at your own and thus become the "maintainer
>>of the package" sponsored by me or if you want me to be the maintainer and
>>care for packaging your software.
>>
>>Our goal is it to make your software more public in the Debian world and
>>make it easier for users to obtain it.
>>
>>Thanks for your cooperation
>>
>> Andreas.
>>
>>--
>>http://fam-tille.de
>>
>>
>>
>
>Hi,
>
>Good to hear from you - I was planning to write to you lot soon
>to ask about getting exonerate included.
>
>I've put the .dsc and .diff.gz etc up at:
>http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~guy/exonerate/debian/
>As you can see, I haven't put much effort in there ;)
>
>I'm happy to maintain the package, or you can do it if thats
>going to be easier. I'd welcome any suggestions for improvements
>- at the least, I should probably split the utils into a separate package.
>
>I don't know if the code generation is a problem with this
>- it makes the compile slow and binary big, but its the
>only way we've found to make the dynamic programming fast enough
>without sacrificing too much portablility and versatility.
>
>
>All the best,
>
>Guy.
>
>
>
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