Re: Packaging of MafFilter

Dear Andreas,

Many thanks for your email. Indeed, the debian package should not be in the distributed tar.gz, I will fix that. One important thing: MafFilter depends on the Bio++ libraries, which are packaged for debian, but not up to date. The packager was Loic Dachary, but he admitted having no time anymore for doing this (which I can fully imagine :) ). I would love to see Bio++ again up to date in debian, and would be very happy to help.

The last "official" distribution of MafFilter is 1.1.0. More recent versions need the development version of Bio++, and therefore we do not provide packages for them yet. We are planning however a new release of Bio++ (and therefore MafFilter), but no timeline is fixed, so I guess version 1.1.0 should be used at the moment.

We recently migrated Bio++ to github. Would that be helpful if I would also put MafFilter on github? I could more easily include patches if needed...

Best regards,

Julien.

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:

Hi Julien,

I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team - a subgroup inside
Debian with the objective to package free software with relevance in
medicine and biology. Due to a user request I intend to package
MafFilter[1].

I noticed that your download tarball includes some debian/ dir. I will
use parts of it for the official packaging but I would advise to drop
this dir from the download. There are several good reasons for it - one
of these might be that users who download the tarball might think there
is no official package and ignore the officially maintained version they
could easily get via apt (once the package is ready).

I have some further questions: The website says:

Current version is 1.1.2

However, the download page[2] has only 1.1.0-1. Could you please
provide also the latest version as source download?

The source download contains some large *.log files and files names
*.ps.raw. I wonder whether these files are really used or whether these
should be deleted from the download.

Kind regards

Andreas.

[1] http://biopp.univ-montp2.fr/forge/maffilter
[2] http://biopp.univ-montp2.fr/repos/sources/maffilter/

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