Re: Clustalw in danger
Hi Charles, hi Andreas,
yes, progressive alignments seem to be less used now. But ClustalW is and remains a classical application. I was not aware that it's inclustion with Debian is in danger, I must admit. The builds are not performed automatically since the package is in non-free. And since I am not a DD, I cannot log in to all the other architectures myself. In two years time things may be different, but for now, I think, Debian should indeed provide the package.
All the smallish improvements to make the ClustalW less quirky were scheduled for the next upstream release (which has not come for a long time) or for me to have been accepted as a DD. Just because the effort for the non-free package is rather high and I need to ask for a DD to do it for me. Neither has yet come, so I ask now: Please, somebody step in and recompile on all the many architectures.
Charles, the change of the maintainer entry is just fine.
Many greetings
Steffen
> I just realised that clustalw is not in testing. It will be difficult to
> satisfy our users in those conditions. Just look at the following graph:
http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages=kalign+dialign+probcons+clustalx+clustalw+muscle+t-coffee+poa+amap-align+sigma-align&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&beenhere=1
>
> ClustalW and ClustalX are still the most popular softwares for multiple
> alignment. Interestingly, there is a concommitant drop in the number of
> users of these two programs, and increase of users of the new alignment
> software I packaged. But I fear that if clustalw is not available, there
> will be a big drop of users instead of a migration to free packages.
>
> http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=clustalw
>
> Apparently, what clustalw needs is to be built on more arches. It was
> NMUed, but only on i386. Do you think it would be fair to ask the author
> of the NMU to finish the work on other arches, or is there a DD on this
> list who could try to rescue the situation ?
>
> We are running against time. Give the discussions on -devel, I am not
> sure that clustalw would be accepted in testing after the freeze.
>
> PS: this would be a good opportunity to integrate my patch for
> freedesktop support. http://bugs.debian.org/380715
>
> PS2: Also, I think that Steffen wouldn't mind if the Maintainer was
> changed to the mail list of the debian-med packaging team. Steffen, can
> you confirm that the following would be OK ?
>
> Maintainer: Debian-Med Packaging Team
> <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Uploaders: Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>, Charles Plessy
> <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>
>
>
> Have a nice day,
>
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>
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