Package: sra-toolkit Version: 3.0.0+dfsg-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
sra-toolkit installs a binary /usr/bin/sratools, which is intended to be used via the symlinks installed by the package (since its behaviour is influenced by the name of the executable): lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 14 14:22 /usr/bin/fasterq-dump -> sratools lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 14 14:22 /usr/bin/fastq-dump -> sratools lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 14 14:22 /usr/bin/prefetch -> sratools lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 14 14:22 /usr/bin/sam-dump -> sratools lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 14 14:22 /usr/bin/sra-pileup -> sratools lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 14 14:22 /usr/bin/srapath -> sratools lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 14 14:22 /usr/bin/vdb-dump -> sratools Invoking the executable by its original name does nothing useful: $ /usr/bin/sratools An error occured: unrecognized tool sratools If this continues to happen, please contact the SRA Toolkit at https://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/ Perhaps sratools should be installed in a private directory like /usr/lib/sra-toolkit, leaving only the symlinks in /usr/bin. Given the absence of man pages for the tools, and not being familiar with them, this caused me some confusion because it appeared something was broken. -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages sra-toolkit depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-5+b1 ii libc6 2.36-6 ii libhdf5-103-1 1.10.8+repack-4 ii libmagic1 1:5.41-4 ii libncbi-vdb3 3.0.0+dfsg2-4 ii libncbi-wvdb2 2.11.2+dfsg-6 ii libncbi-wvdb3 3.0.0+dfsg2-4 ii libre2-9 20220601+dfsg-1 ii libxml2 2.9.14+dfsg-1.1+b2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1 Versions of packages sra-toolkit recommends: ii med-config 3.7.3 sra-toolkit suggests no packages. -- no debconf information