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Re: Bug#452923: ITP: libgo-perl -- parses all GO files formats and types



-=| Charles Plessy, Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 02:46:59PM +0900 |=-
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>
> 
>   Package name    : libgo-perl
> 
>  This is a collection of perl code for dealing with Gene Ontologies (GO)
>  and OBO style ontologies. It is part of the `go-dev' distribution, but
>  this Debian package is made from the CPAN archive. This package
>  contains both scripts (which can be used with no knowledge of perl),
>  and libraries which will be of use to perl programmers using GO or OBO.
> 
> (OBO is a format for defining ontologies, but I did not manage to find
> the exact meaning of the acronym yet…)
> 
> I am unsure if a libfoo-perl package can provide scripts? (CC'ed
> debian-perl). This library is necessary for the GFF3 validator, for
> which I will issue an ITP soon. I will use CPAN as the source, because
> the `go-dev' distribution is a beast whose source is > 40 Mio, and I
> will not have time to package it.

Scripts are fine, especially when you actually want the modules provided
by the package. If the scripts are huge, using a separate binary package
for them could be a good idea. If they are small, include them within
the same binary package.
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