Re: Packaging BLAT for Debian
Hello,
On October 25, 2017 5:03:23 PM EDT, Maximilian Haeussler <max@soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:
>Andreas: If clustal, cufflinks, phylip, paml and many other
>bioinformatics packages are just fine in the non-free repo, couldn't
>we do the same with blat?
>
>http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/c/
>http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/e/
>http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/p/
>
Just to clarify Andreas' statement about it not being allowed in Debian. non-free is not technically part of Debian: packages are not autobuilt there, no reproducibility checking or continuous integration is done on them, and even any free-software package that depends on it is similarly excluded from Debian main.
About the lack of autobuilding--this means only whatever binaries the package maintainer uploads will be available, and any rebuilds that need to happen must be done manually by the maintainer.
For non-free, the software just needs to be legally redistributable
regards
Afif
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