Hello Tony, This is another Bio-Tools package. I kind of like to have it, but I tend to think this is mostly of historic interest. This does not mean that we should not have it, very much the opposite, it was once instrumental for getting the worm genome together, and many others. Because of the strong educational interest this package should have, the documentation is important which I could not find in the package. Also the man pages are missing. Could you possibly contact upstream about it? And maybe also ask for directions on how the history of Sanger's Human Genome Project can be preserved also on the software side? This could well become a nice paper in its own right, I tend to think. And maybe an dedicated sprint at Sanger on that matter would be a good idea.
The source tree has some fragments of acedb with it (all developed by the same kind of people) which today is GPLed on https://github.com/richarddurbin/acedb/ . But that is something new. I would guess that there is some interest to also have the CAFTOOLS GPLed. The restrictive nature of their source code is likely because of their competition with Celera at the time and has no meaning today. Could you hence also please ask about a license change? This has all time till after your vacation :) Best, Steffen -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Processing of caftools_2.0.2-1_amd64.changes Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 14:59:26 +0000 From: Debian FTP Masters <[email protected]> To: [email protected] caftools_2.0.2-1_amd64.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: caftools_2.0.2-1.dsc caftools_2.0.2.orig.tar.gz caftools_2.0.2-1.debian.tar.xz caftools-dbgsym_2.0.2-1_amd64.deb caftools_2.0.2-1_amd64.buildinfo caftools_2.0.2-1_amd64.deb Greetings, Your Debian queue daemon (running on host usper.debian.org)
