Hello Andreas, I will ask for this before me you mention i will go on another bug. Thanks for reply.
Best Regards 2017-03-30 10:41 GMT+03:00 Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu>: > retitle 848335 Filo should be removed from Debian after Stretch release > since it is unmaintained and can be replaced > thanks > > Hi Charles, > > thanks for your explanation. > > On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 10:54:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Le Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 08:37:28AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > > > > > In principle the best idea would be to convince upstream to choose less > > > generic names but I think development of filo is stalled. > > > > Hi all, > > > > indeed the development of filo is stalled. > > > > Filo contains three binaires: > > > > /usr/lib/filo/groupBy > > /usr/lib/filo/shuffle > > /usr/lib/filo/stats > > > > * groupBy is the main program in the filo package. It was branched off > the > > groupBy command in bedtools, but then the author changed his mind. > > > > https://github.com/arq5x/bedtools2/issues/418#issuecomment-238037963 > > OK, it makes sense to switch to something that is actively maintained. > > > * shuffle has for shure many possible alternatives elsewhere. > > Could you name some? Do we need to package something? > > > * stats was handy, but I think that it is quite superseded by datamash. > > I noticed that datamash was mentioned in med-cloud task. I added it in > addition to filo in med-bio as well as in science-statistics. I wished > we would care more for those metainformation to make users aware of > otherwise hidden tools. If datamash is important for our target user > group we should also convince the current maintainer to consider team > maintenance in either Debian Med or Debian Science. > > > Altogether, I am regularly tempted to request the removal of filo. But > if we > > do so, we need to update bedtools to make it ship its own groupBy command > > again. This is not difficult, but probably not the best moment either. > > Definitely not the right moment. > > > Shall we remove filo after the Release ? > > Yes. You probably have noticed my retitle of the bug. There is no > point in adding a test suite to a to be removed package and the bug can > serve as a reminder to make sure we will not forget to do the needed > course of action. > > Büşra, I suggest to leave filo alone for the moment and pick another one > from > > https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2017/Projects/QA_BiologyApps > > I have actually remove the bug pointing to filo. If needed I can add > new bugs with other packages to the task list of the Outreachy project. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > >
