On 21 Feb 2019, at 16:20, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 03:42:00PM +0000, John Marshall wrote:
>> I used to imagine distros would call this libhts-utils or similar, as it
>> provides several command-line utilities that are bundled with HTSlib. But
>> perhaps Debian has been shipping a tabix package since the pre-htslib
>> samtools 0.1.x days and would like to keep with that tradition.
>
> Well, we can just keep that suggestion. If we will rename tabix to
> libhts-utils (what else than tabix should be contained here?) this
> package can "Provides: tabix" for compatibility and upgrades.
It's been bgzip+htsfile+tabix for a few years now. In theory more utilities
might be added that had more natural homes in src:htslib than in
{sam,bcf}tools, but it's probably pretty unlikely.
>> Thanks for responding to this ridiculously quickly!
>
> My intention is to maintain as best as possible cooperation to our
> upstreams and beeing quick and responsive is part of this. It will
> not always work that fast, but at least we try hard.
That's great and I'm sure upstream will appreciate that.
Me, I am no longer one of the core HTSlib/samtools/etc maintainers. I'm just an
interested bystander with a deep knowledge of the codebase, making what should
be eventually self-evident statements about the code. What you choose to do
with those statements is up to you :-) and I am sure will depend on the value
of the statements themselves not where they come from!
John
