Hello, I'm wondering whether we should provide a samtools-dev binary package for its header files and static library. Although the upstream build system does not have an option to install those, they seem to be used by some projects.
Specifically, I was looking to package lofreq [1], but it requires the samtools headers and its static library libbam.a, expecting users to have a compiled copy of the source distribution for samtools. I was able to somewhat cheat by using the headers that end up getting distributed with pysam (in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pysam/include/samtools), but there's no sense in adding a hack dependency on pysam (and the static library libbam.a isn't in there anyway). If nobody has objections, I can go ahead and add it. Does the current status in git match the latest upload? It still says 1.2-4 is UNRELEASED while that is the current version in unstable. Thanks and regards Afif 1. https://github.com/CSB5/lofreq -- Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي http://afif.ghraoui.name
