Re: New version of ncbi-blast+ available

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi Aaron,

On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 11:24:58PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> 
> Thanks for taking care of this upload!  If you don't mind, I'd like to
> prepare a team upload in the near future to take care of two changes:
> 
> * Enabling support for accessing NCBI servers via HTTPS.  (It should
>   probably suffice to declare a build dependency on libgnutls28-dev.)
> 
> * Recognizing the retirement of BLAST from the ncbi-tools6 side, both by
>   letting ncbi-blast+-legacy go ahead and populate /usr/bin and by
>   taking over the blast2 binary package as a dummy transitional package.
>   (NB: the binary package will need an epoch.)
> 
> I also plan another upload of ncbi-tools6 to stop building the blast2
> binary package at all, retire its remaining vestiges (the autopkgtest
> setup and bibliography), and address any other issues that come up.  (In
> particular, I see that I will have a Hurd FTBFS to address.)

If you ask me under this cricumstances I'd upload even with FTBFS at
Hurd since the package needs to pass new if you remove the binary
package blast2.  While it resides in new the FTBFS can be solved and
another upload can fix it.

Just my 2 cents

      Andreas.

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