Packaging alien_hunter for Debian
Hi George,
I don't know whether you know the Debian Med project [1]
which tries to build a suite of Free Software for medical
care. One (currently quite strong) branch of this is the
biological part[2]. As you might see we also list your
alien_hunter package in the "todo" part of this list.
Recently a colleague of mine asked me about your package
which is the reason why it went up in my todo list and so
I had a look into it. I hope you like this effort and I
would like to pronounce some remarks about the downloadable
tarball.
The tarball contains some prebuilded jar files from BioJava
and others. While I clearly see the rationale to do so for
users who might download your tar archive this is not really
what we would consider as "source package" from a distributors
point of view because it contains "something else" than
sources. This might lead to conflicting versions on complex
installations and so I would rather try to strip down the
Java stuff from your tarball and rather use the Debian
packaged Version of BioJava (which is not yet officially
released - but this is work in progress).
The other jar files seem to be available as Debian packages
as well - so I think I might easily be able to ignore these
inside the tarball.
My main concern is that there are some class files
Changepoint{Left,Right}*.class
where I have no idea how to obtain the source and this
is probably the main point I'm bothering you: What is
the sense of these class files and is there any source
available?
Additional hint: If you leave out the CVS dir in your
downloadable tarball it saves some bandwidth for files
users do not really need. I would recommend to strip
this for the next release.
Kind regards and thanks for providing alien_hunter
Andreas.
[1] http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
[2] http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio.html
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