Bug#810600: ITP: minimap -- tool to find approximate mapping positions between long sequences

[Sascha Steinbiss <satta@tetrinetsucht.de>]

Hi,

>>>> Description     : tool to find approximate mapping positions between long sequences
>>> 
>>> Sounds misleading to me. By looking at the package name and short
>>> description, I expected some tool for GIS, not biology.

[…]

>> 
>> What would you think about changing the short description to explicitly mention biological sequences. How about ’tool for efficient approximate mapping of long biosequences such as DNA reads’.
> 
> Maybe "tool for efficient approximate mapping of long biosequences" or
> "tool for efficient approximate mapping of long biosequences like DNA reads”

Agreed. I just pushed a new, more clear description [1]

>> One could also think of renaming the package to ‘minimap-bio’ or the like as a lat resort, but I would rather avoid that.
> 
> I would stick to upstream name as long as possible. Once a while ago I
> made the mistake of deviating from upstream just for cosmetic reasons
> and it always sucked.

I can imagine. 

Best regards and thanks for your input,
Sascha

[1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-commit/2016-January/041832.html