Bug#454349: [Help] Biomode
Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> writes:
> On Thu, 8 May 2008, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
>> http://evolution.bmc.uu.se/~thomas/mol_linux/index.html
>
> As I said: This web page vanished and upstream authors mail address bounces.
> So we are probably upstream ourselves.
According to debian/changelog and the header in bio-mode.el, I've
done a bit of cleaning up in 2003. Back then, I didn't find
a new upstream version either, so this package is definitely not maintained
by anyone anymore. It has been written in 1997, which is
semi-old for an Emacs package. I wonder if this is still useful these days.
Probably best to ask an emacs user in the field of bioinformatics :-)
> I checked in improved packaging at
>
> svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/packages/biomode/trunk/
>
> which builds the package as in biomode_1.002-7 but installation under
> emacs (I used emacs as dependency without explicite versioning) throws
> _a_ _lot_ _of_ _warnigs_.
It is expected behaviour for an emacs package on Debian
to throw some warnings at installation time, since byte compilation
is not done at package build time, rather at installation time.
Some of these warnings can usually be ignored.
> Do we have interest / manpower to maintain this code.
I do have the capabilities to at least update the elisp so that
it produces less or no warnings at all, but I do
have no interest in working on this since I dont use any files
that biomode is suited for. I basically just adopted it out of a general
love for emacs packages, but since there is no upstream, its kinda hard
to keep up to date without any incentive.
> Perhaps we could get some help on a debian emacs related list - but
> I have no idea how to fix this.
You can prod me about specific things regarding elisp if you like.
I rather think you should find out first if it is worth the hassle
to keep this up to date.
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