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Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target



On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:01:43 +0200, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> Hi Faheem,
>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 04:24:21PM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote:
>> I've got Debian packaging for a piece of software I've written. This
>> software probably is too specialized to be part of Debian.
>
> Could you please tell us what specialized software you have written.
> You might simply like to post your Description field here to let others
> know.

Hi Andreas,

Certainly, but I'm pretty sure this is of no general interest. It is
accompanying software for a paper I've written.  It is just an
implementation of the methods I've developed. The package description
itself is fairly useless (I should think about how to write it
better), but I include the abstract of the paper below. This probably
could also use some work.

  We describe and implement a method to predict new members of a DNA
  sequence motif family using Bayesian model selection. This method
  assumes a specific correlation structure on the set of sequences. We
  apply our method to test the prediction of DNA sequence motifs in a
  cross-validation setup for two datasets.

The software uses SQL (PostgreSQL), Python, R and C++, so it is a bit
of a hotchpotch, and while a small package, it has a large number of
dependencies. Unfortunately the R packages I use are not all in
Debian, last I checked.

                                                       Regards, Faheem


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