Hi Charles, I suggest to ship with samtools 0.1.19 . The new samtools 1.1 version isn't quiet ready yet, and htslib needs some upstream work too.
-Dominique On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Charles Plessy <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > as Samtools users know, a major update happened this summer. The old > version > (0.1.19) is still present in Jessie, while Sid has version 1.1. > > Version 1.1 should be backwards-compatible, but there are probably corner > cases > lurking around, such as other tools expecting a version number starting > with 0, > etc. > > In addition, version 1.1 does not build on some architectures where 0.1.19 > built in the past. > > Given that the Freeze is near, I therefore wonder what version would be the > best for the release: 0.1.19 or 1.1. In one possible scenarios, we would > distribute 1.x later in jessie-backports. > > What do you think ? > > Charles > > -- > Charles Plessy > Debian Med packaging team, > https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med > Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > >
