About having EMBOSS 6.4.0 in Wheezy or not.
Dear all,
I am back from a conference in Singapore and I try to catch up with many Debian
tasks. The freeze comes at a moment where I am very busy at work, which is
unfortunate.
EMBOSS version 6.4.0 is available for almost a year, but currently Wheezy
contains version 6.3.1. The major blocker for an upgrade is the clarification
of the redistribution terms of some test files, which is ongoing. I want to
send one more update to debian-private and ftpmaster@, to make sure that
everybody agrees to dismiss the non-free license on these files that do not
contain creative content. But given that the current emboss package is already
affected by this license issue, we probably can update the packages without
this being a strong misbehaviour, although I usually do not like to upload
things for which I am not sure if they are acceptable.
Ironically, EMBOSS has a one year release cycle with a due date on July 15,
which will make our frozen package instantly obsolete. Therefore, if time is
really short, the simplest is to fix the RC but on embassy-domalign and forget
about the 6.4.0 line. Please let me know your thoughts about this.
Have a nice Sunday,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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