Bug#669917: ITP: soap2 -- SOAPaligner of short next generation sequencing data

["Steffen Möller" <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

Hi Thomas,
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> > Description: <insert up to 60 chars description>
> >  SOAPaligner/soap2 is a member of the Short Oligonucleotide Analysis
> >  Package (SOAP)
> IMO, the package name is badly chosen. 99.99% of all Debian users
> will believe that this is something concerning the SOAP network
> protocol "Simple Object Access Protocol".
> 
> Would you mind to rename your package "soapaligner"?

Charge me up to those 99.99%, please. It always confuses me, too, particularly so since I was once helping the ever-ophaned gsoap package. I am less concerned about the package than with the binary, though.

There is SOAP 1,2 and 3 (with GPUs). Only v2 is called soapaligner from what I grasped.  genomics.cn-soap2 would be sufficiently distinctive and non-disrupting, I think. In the bio world that tool is fairly well known. Fine with you?

Steffen