Intent to package: NCBI biology tools (Was: SUMMARY: Intent to package: molecular biology programs
I plan to package the NCBI toolkit, a library written by the NCBI
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/> to help writing various biology programs.
After that, I plan to package programs which use the library, the first one
being of course Blast 2 (Blast 1 is regarded as obsolete by many and
Blast-Wu's sources are not available).
This is the first time I meet a program with such a licence (quoting the
upstream maintainer):
> The NCBI toolkit has been put into the public domain, completely unfettered.
So, it will be uploaded in main. Of course, thanks to dh_make, I'll have a
-dev and a not-dev packages.
It is a huge source archive (10 Mbytes in the .Z distribution form, 6 Mbytes
with gzip -9) so I hope it will not overload the source CD... It compiles fine
on Linux.
Binaries distributions exist, but not for any Linux.
On Tuesday 1 September 1998, at 16 h 23, the keyboard of Stephane Bortzmeyer
<bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr> wrote:
> Rasmol (already a Debian package) is also a good example: It's a
> chemistry program but it is used a lot by biologists. So, everybody
> agrees to replace Math by Science in slink?
I'll soon begin to upload the first biology programs (just waiting a working
account on master) and it seems no decision has been taken about it. Should I
upload in Math (no!) or in Misc ? There is no obvious section for me and I
strongly vote for the Science section.
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