[Debian-med-packaging] r5008 - in trunk/packages/hmmer/trunk/debian: . source

["Steffen Möller"]

Hello,

> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:02:29PM -0400, Eric Talevich wrote:
> > Sorrry about that. Steffen was helping me quickly get set up to do
> Debian
> > packaging during the BOSC Codefest, and I admit I didn't spend much time
> on
> > the text. I'll behave better now.
> 
> There is no need for sorry or to promise behaving better.  I was just
> giving a hint and in case you consider the News as important enough I
> will not stop you from keeping the file.  I just wanted to let you know
> that it should be well thought.  I'm personally not working with this
> software and can not tell what effect the change really might have on
> researchers and was not able to make it out from the text.  Just
> consider yourself as a hmmer expert while I'm just giving *hints* which
> might be helpful or not.

it is indeed a non-issue, the 2.3 version had the news file and we just continued using it.
  
> > For HMMer: I'm not sure exactly how the change from PVM to MPI affects
> end
> > users, but the package does include some other changes they should be
> aware
> > of. Most notably:
> > 
> > - 'hmmpfam' is renamed to 'hmmscan',
> > - 'hmmcalibrate' is gone, no longer needed
> > - programs that kept the same name generally take different options now
> > - several new binaries are added
> > 
> > Should that go in the NEWS file instead?
> 
> I think this gives a better motivation for the NEWS file because it
> might be really the case that users need to change some scripts.  I
> have no idea how much effort the suggestion of Charles might cause.
> If we will have the manpower to support both it sounds reasonable.
> If it is to much effort we should probably go with the most modern
> code.

The package is already in the archive now. If we want a NEWS file, then we better add it now before it migrates to unstable.

Many greetings

Steffen