Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir
Hi Andreas,
I wanted to be clear on what you're asking.
We install everything on our cluster using Debian packages, and when packaging isn't done elsewhere we do it for internal use, and offer it to the public for use at their leisure from our apt repo.
For key bioinformatics software we re-package them specially so that all executables contain version numbers, and different versions result in different packages. This is part of our reproducibility system, and may be of use to some, but certainly not all users.
Are you telling me that we're doing the packaging incorrectly, or that we shouldn't make an apt repository available?
Thanks for any advice you have..
Scott
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Scott Smith
Manager, Application Programming and Development
Analysis Pipeline
The Genome Institute
Washington University School of Medicine
On Sep 7, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> when I downloaded thesource tarball of new upstream version of velvet I
> noticed that it contains a debian/ directory. This is usually a bad idea
> and should not be done (feel free to ask for a detailed explanation why
> and I spend some time to pick links and give more detailed reasons.)
>
> It would be really great if you would drop this from your next source
> release. If you really like to maintain the debian/ directory I would
> suggest you join the Debian Med team which maintains a lot of medical
> and micro-biological software in its version control system. We would
> be really happy to see you in our team and you can trust on kind
> guidance in case of some Debian related issues. You can also influence
> the soonish release of new versions if you ask for sponsoring your work
> to official Debian mirrors.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
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> http://fam-tille.de
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