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Re: RF peer review/help/sponsoring: seqcluster



Hi Steffen,

On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 05:22:58PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
> > BTW, is it a *workflow* (thus kind of a user application)?  If so the
> > name python3-seqcluster is *wrong* and should be rather only seqcluster.
> > We prefix package that provides a Python3 **module** with python3 and
> > not any package that by chance was written in Python3.  So please
> > consider renaming the package (and the repository) to seqcluster if
> > its not a module you include somewhere in some workflow but rather a
> > self-standing application.
> 
> I had thought about it. From what I have observed, bcbio used the python
> API.
> The package comes with a 300 bytes executable, so technically, yes, you can
> execute something.
> 
> I kind of liked that because of pip the seqcluster name is kind of
> guaranteed to be unique in the python world. But seqcluster by itself,
> this cries for a name conflict sooner or later, like seqlib is troubling
> us these days.
> 
> What might be nice is to have an additional binary that only includes
> the executables, so we are likely to avoid someone coming up with a
> seqcluster package in the near future.

OK, fine for me.  Having a separate binary package with executables
sounds pretty sensible to me.
 
> >> I am happy to just have vienna-rna suggested instead of recommended, so
> >> I wait for your comment on the non-free build-dep.
> > Only if we can strip the test suite to not necessarily need vienna-rna.
> 
> I personally rank the integrity from testing higher than having it in main.

Fair enough.
 
> > BTW, did you contacted vienna-rna upstream to free their code and if
> > yes, please add this attempt to
> >
> >    https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/SoftwareLiberation
> 
> Yes. Will do.

Great!
 
> I was hoping to run into the guys at one of the upcoming conferences but
> ... Winter is coming.
> 
> I'll collect opinions for another while and eventually then upload.
> 
> Many thanks!

You are welcome

     Andreas. 

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