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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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