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Re: Bug#851306: ITP: freebayes -- Bayesian haplotype-based polymorphism discovery and genotyping




On January 15, 2017 12:35:57 PM EST, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
>Hi Scott,
>
>On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 04:34:40PM +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> >I fully agree with your generic name consideration.  The software is
>> >well known in this work field anyway so I'm hesitating a bit to
>rename
>> >it.  Would you consider this a strong issue that needs to be
>discussed
>> >with upstream or is it in a "not nice but acceptable" status?
>> 
>> I think it should be discussed with upstream, but we have broader
>namespace considerations that they may not understand or care about.
>
>Definitely.
> 
>> As long as a package search for freebayes returns this in the result
>set, I don't think it's critical to have the package name match exactly
>the upstream name.
>
>Do you care only about the *package* name or do you care as well about
>the name binary /usr/bin/freebayes?

I think they are both important.

Scott K

>> Not wearing my FTP team hat for this, consider it as a comment from
>another DD.
>
>Both is welcome.
>
>Kind regards
>
>     Andreas.


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