Debian Package for kmer
Hello,
I'm contacting you on behalf of the Debian Med team. We are a group
within the Debian project that focuses on packaging software for
medicine and biology, making them easier to install and work with for
users of Debian and its derivatives. Here is a list of biology software
that we have packaged so far: <http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio>
By way of trying to bring the Celera assembler into Debian, I have taken
up packaging your project Kmer. I just have some questions/requests for
you about issues that have come up.
Firstly, the licensing terms are not explicit in the source distribution
for all components of your project. I only see license terms described
for LEAFF sim4db. Although the sourceforge download page says GPLv2, We
would feel more comfortable with an indication of this in the source
distribution itself.
I also see that you offer the code only as subversion snapshots. Our
packaging system works best with compressed tar archives
(tar.{gz,bz2,lzma,xz}) and versioned releases. We would also like to
avoid packaging a snapshot in the middle of partial development. What I
have been working with so far is the snapshot matching that which was
bundled with the latest version of wgs-assembler.
Finally, although not all components of kmer are used in wgs-assembler,
I thought it would be good to include them all. I noticed, however, that
there are some directories in your distribution that are not explained.
I do not know the roles of some of these subcomponents. These are
seagen, seatac, tapper, and trie. If you could please explain these,
that would help me with creating their manpages.
The Debian project has a guide for upstream developers [1] that explains
further some of these issues, but I have explained my main issues in
this message. I'm sorry about its being a bit long.
Many thanks and regards,
Afif
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Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي
http://afif.ghraoui.name
1. https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamGuide
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