Maybe sponsor package under debian-med umbrella?

[Benjamin Redelings <benjamin.redelings@gmail.com>]

Hi,

    I see that many bioinformatics programs such as muscle, mafft, and 
fsa (alignment) and mrbayes, beast-mcmc, and phyml (phylogenetics), etc. 
are maintained by the "Debian Med Packaging Team".  I uploaded a package 
for bali-phy (which does simultaneous alignment) to mentors.debian.net.  
(Disclaimer: I am the author). I was originally planning to try to 
maintain this on my own, but (supposing people are interesting in this 
package) would the Debian Med team be a better structure?

    Many of the programs that I use (such as figtree) are available in 
Debian now, but a few (e.g. tracer: 
http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/tracer/, canu: 
https://github.com/marbl/canu) are not.  I would probably be interested 
in packaging tracer.  Like figtree, it is a java program, and it is by 
the same authors, so I presume I could use the figtree package as a 
template.

    Thoughts?

-BenRI