Re: vcftools

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 03:06:49PM +0100, Tony Travis a écrit :
> 
> I need to process .vcf files with thousands of WGS scaffolds in them
> instead of just a few chromosomes. The latest version of "vcftools" can
> do this, but the version of "vcftools" currently in Bio-Linux 8/Ubuntu
> 14.04 LTS is quite old:
 
> I noticed that your Debian-Med version is in Ubuntu Xenial/16.04 LTS:
 
> What would be the correct way to update the version of "vcftools" in
> Bio-Linux 8/Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?

Dear Tony,

I am not very familiar with Ubuntu, but it seems to me that it is possible to
request official backports:

    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports

>From the Debian side, there is little we can do, but we sometimes prepare
unofficial backports in our team's PPA:

    https://launchpad.net/~debian-med/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Have a nice day,

Charles

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan