Re: fasttree: hard-coded limit on branch length precision leads to erroneous results

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Roland,

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 04:04:23PM +0100, Roland Fehrenbacher wrote:
> as described in detail at
> http://darlinglab.org/blog/2015/03/23/not-so-fast-fasttree.html
> fasttree 2.1.7 has a a serious issue for many genomic epidemiology
> studies which can lead to completely wrong conclusions about research
> results in biomedicine. The current version of fasttree in jessie
> (2.1.7-1) has this severe deficiency.
> 
> The above article describes the patch needed to prevent the
> flaw. Upstream incorporated the fix in version 2.1.8. In my opinion this
> bug is release critical and should be fixed before the release of
> jessie.

Please file an RC bug!

> I've already prepared a patched new package for this, so the bug
> could be closed very fast after uploading that new package version.

Please note that a fixed package should not change anything but the
bug (so the Vcs fields should remain untouched for the upload!).

Thanks for noticing

     Andreas.

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