Re: Role of acedb-other-belvu and acedb-other-dotter versus belvu & dotter from seqtools

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

Hi Andreas,

On 19.10.17 18:09, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I started to check the list of external packages of possibly interesting
> packages and stumbled upon blixem which is part of seqtools[1].  The
> source also contains dotter and belvu and seems to be actively
> maintained.  However, the packages acedb-other-belvu and
> acedb-other-dotter from source acedb (which is orphaned upstream)
> contain the same executable names and it seems the programs are doing
> the same.  My packaging attempt on seqtools[2] went quite smoothly but
> surely needs some polishing - most probably also dynamic linking against
> a common library.  Before I'll spent additional time cycles I'd like to
> know your opinion whether we should simply replace the orphaned belvu
> and dotter versions from the acedb package or if not how we should
> proceed otherwise.
>
> Kind regards
>
>     Andreas.
>
> [1] http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/seqtools
> [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/seqtools.git

Looks good to me. How about proposing that as a MoM project?
I'd volunteer as a mentor.

Steffen