Le Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:52:43PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > However, as far as I can see there in tracker[5] are more important > problems in samtools affecting several architectures. According to > Charles[6] this might be fixed upstream in the next release. I'm not > sure how promissing the suggested action (=waiting for upstream) might > be. Does anybody have contact to upstream and would find out whether a > new release can be expected soon or whether we should try to backport > the changes (and would volunteer to do the backporting ;-)).
Hi Andreas, life is short, time is precisous, and frankly speaking, MIPS, hurd, hppa, etc. are irrelevant to bioinformatics. Why not just patiently waiting for the next upstream release ? The htlslib packages work very well on amd64, and this is where our work is used. On my side, I do not have time and patience to deal with these porting issues with more than a "best effort" priority, because there are no users for htlslib on these platforms. If there are volunteers to backport changes in order to go faster than Upstream, please do so but please also remove my name from the Uploaders field. On my side I have no time for this wokflow that multiplies patch management and uploads. An please do not take this comment negatively: if people can do more that is great, but at the moment, with my reduced free time and an intensely stressful job, I am not even in a position to participate to such an effort occasionally. Making bioinformatics viable on alternative architectures is a huge task that is only doable with full dedication. Actually, this is really the kind of task that I think should be only done if hardware vendors or granting agencies would provide a strong support. I am not seeing myself as a pioneer to develop a new market for manufacturers, I am a researcher sharing the tools of today on the machines of today. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150728202354.gb19...@falafel.plessy.net
