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Re: Bug#766321: ITP: fastaq -- FASTA and FASTQ file manipulation tools



(Why #766321 is not included in this mail thread?)

На 23.10.2014 г. в 11:54 ч., Jorge Sebastião Soares написа:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de> wrote:
    Also, the name might be too general. The program name is the same as
    the format
    it reads. This makes it look as if this program is the somehow
    *official* way
    to read, write and manipulate fasta/fastaq files.


I'm not sure I agree with this statement.
If we called it fastaq-tools, this could also be seen as the *official*
way to deal with fasta or fastq files.

    But you don't see programs
    called jpeg or odt or avi in Debian either. Maybe you should
    convince upstream
    to use a more unique name than the file format it operates on.


I know exactly what you mean and I agree to a certain extent.
I had actually mentioned it at the Debian Med sprint meeting as
packaging fastaq was one of the actions that came out of the sprint.

However we (me and upstream that sits behind me) believe this is a short
name that expresses, along with a proper description, what the software
does.
Nowhere will we say that fastaq is the ultimate way to manipulate,
write, read, season, cook or serve fasta or fastq files. We will,
however, think it. :)

There is no file format "fastaq", only "fasta" and "fastq". And there is a very popular package already with one-letter difference compared to file format name: "fastqc". So I think "fastaq" as package name is OK.

All the best,
Ognyan Kulev


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