Le Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:36:04AM +0200, Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio a écrit : > 2007/10/10, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Because Debian Etch is the stable version, it does not receive new > > packages unless they fix security issues or grave bugs. The emboss > > package for Debian will never be part of Etch nor its updates. > > > > Really? > I didn't know emboss had grave bugs.
Dear Giovanni, I have been unclear. The reason why EMBOSS is not in Debian Etch is because its Debian package was not ready when Etch has been released. Furthermore, it is the policy of Debian to only accept changes related to security or grave bugs. Therefore, Debian Etch will never contain the Debian packages we prepared for EMBOSS. I will announce on this list when the package will be available through backports.org. > Are you saying they can't be fixed? > I can't find many references to bugs in emboss, but maybe you are > referring to bugs like this: > - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427439 ? Yes, the current package still has some quality issues. However, all the ones reported so far are solved in our SVN repository. I hope that I can update the Debian package of EMBOSS in Debian Sid soon. http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-emboss/emboss/trunk/debian/changelog?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 (If one explores a bit this repository, he can have a glimpse of what we have in the pipeline...). > Thank you very much: I think many people are interested, expecially > from the Ubuntu users community. By the way, if you ask to a MOTU Science, I think that it is possible to fast-track the emboss packages into Ubuntu... > Maybe you can just add the link to debian backports in the help page. The new package.debian.org website advertises the backports. See for example the page for OpenOffice.org: http://packages.debian.org/openoffice.org Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian-Med packaging team. Wako, Saitama, Japan _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
