Hi, Andreas, I'm contacting you on behalf of the Debian Med team, a group within the Debian project that aims to make Debian an ideal computing platform for biology and medicine.
I took interest in packaging your software LoFreq, but was a bit confused by the requirement for the samtools static library and internal header files. It's my understanding that the samtools developers tried to make all externally useful components available through htslib. Is this something required for functionality of the software, or is it needed only to provide the samtools functions faidx, index, and idxstats as convenience clones within lofreq? If the latter, we will probably patch those functions out for the Debian package and have the lofreq package recommend the samtools package. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Many thanks for your work on lofreq and providing it under an agreeable license. regards Afif -- Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي http://afif.ghraoui.name
