Re: Bio-Linux' Caftools -> experimental Fwd: Processing of caftools_2.0.2-1_amd64.changes
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 05:10:07PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
> This is another Bio-Tools package. I kind of like to have it, but I tend
> to think this is mostly of historic interest. This does not mean that we
> should not have it, very much the opposite, it was once instrumental for
> getting the worm genome together, and many others. Because of the strong
> educational interest this package should have, the documentation is
> important which I could not find in the package. Also the man pages are
> missing. Could you possibly contact upstream about it? And maybe also
> ask for directions on how the history of Sanger's Human Genome Project
> can be preserved also on the software side? This could well become a
> nice paper in its own right, I tend to think. And maybe an dedicated
> sprint at Sanger on that matter would be a good idea.
Once there was some discussion here on this list when I was in contact
with Andrew Page about gubbins packaging (end 2015 / beginning 2016) he
once was positive about a sprint at Sanger. May be somebody should
catch up with this and may be even coupling with the yearly MiniDebConf
in Cambridge is a sensible option (but we should check whether this will
be held this year).
> The source tree has some fragments of acedb with it (all developed by
> the same kind of people) which today is GPLed on
> https://github.com/richarddurbin/acedb/.
Hmmm, that's just a code copy of a different version of the acedb
package. I'd recommend to rather remove it from the caftools package.
> But that is something new. I
> would guess that there is some interest to also have the CAFTOOLS GPLed.
> The restrictive nature of their source code is likely because of their
> competition with Celera at the time and has no meaning today. Could you
> hence also please ask about a license change?
That would be really cool. Please record it on our Software Liberation
page[1].
BTW, what is the reason to upload the package to experimental?
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/SoftwareLiberation
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