Hi, On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 05:10:07PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > 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.
Once there was some discussion here on this list when I was in contact with Andrew Page about gubbins packaging (end 2015 / beginning 2016) he once was positive about a sprint at Sanger. May be somebody should catch up with this and may be even coupling with the yearly MiniDebConf in Cambridge is a sensible option (but we should check whether this will be held this year). > 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/. Hmmm, that's just a code copy of a different version of the acedb package. I'd recommend to rather remove it from the caftools package. > 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? That would be really cool. Please record it on our Software Liberation page[1]. BTW, what is the reason to upload the package to experimental? Kind regards Andreas. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/SoftwareLiberation -- http://fam-tille.de
