On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Einar Ryeng <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 07:17:05PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > 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 ? > > As Debian releases tend to be around for a while, I for one would rather > see > version 1.1 in jessie. The preferred pipelines for genomic analyses tend to > move rather quickly, and as many of the tools people actualy use are often > distributed "academically", outside of the repositories, people may > quickly run > into the need of building samtools locally if we ship an old version. > > Which architectures have build problems, and are they likely to be used by > anyone running samtools? > >
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=samtools&suite=unstable I would like to see at least a working version on arm. -Dominique
