[GSoC Report][Work during past month] Packaging and Quality assurance of COVID-19 relevant applications

[Nilesh Patra <npatra974@gmail.com>]

NB: This month, I finally became an official Debian Maintainer \o/

The following work has been accomplished in the month of June:

Debian-Med team work done:

Uploads to NEW:

• readucks (in NEW)
• python-streamz (in NEW)
• Shovill (Accepted)
• yanosim (in NEW)
• ngmlr (in NEW)
• yanagiba (Accepted)
• paryfor (in NEW)
• pyrle (Accepted)
• sorted-nearest (in NEW)
• pyranges (in NEW)

Autopkgtests added/fixed:

• biomaj3-core (Closed: #961902) (Severity: RC bug)
• libgff
• poretools - also fixed non-functional binaries
• norsp
• solvate
• mencal
• seqtools
• vsearch
• seq-gen - will be uploaded after a free software license is approved
• beads
• sickle
• tiddit - also fixed this, as it was completely broken with a missing binary
• elph

Bugs Fixed:

• circos (Closed: #962247) (Severity: normal)
• gatb-core (Closed: #960414) (Severity: RC)
• spdlog (Closed: #956694) (Severity: RC)

Other Work:

• nanosv - enabled build-time tests (Quality Assurance)
• pychopper - enabled build-time tests (Quality Assurance)
• seqkit - remove dependence on forked go-logging

Work done with other Debian teams:

Debian JS Team:

* Updated the Following:

• node-compression-webpack-plugin

Debian Go Team:

* Fixed the following RC bugs:

• golang-pault-go-ykpiv (Closed: #890929)
• golang-github-karlseguin-ccache (Closed: #952187)

Debian Python Modules Team:

* Fixed the following RC bugs:

• djangorestframework-gis (Closed: #961901)

Debian Science Team:

* Fixed the following RC bugs:

• python-pweave (Closed: #962104)

Debian Matrix Team:

• Fixed nheko for backports