[Debian-med-packaging] sra-sdk: should it be in Debian?

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Steve,

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 05:09:18PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Ping?

I guess you were not CCed in Charles' answer to your first mail.  So I
foreward this mail which hopefully gives a reasonable explanation.  In
short my opinion:

  - Yes, we want to keep this package (several bio-informatics software
    has a low popcon)
  - Usually Charles is quite wuick and responsive, I assume he will
    recover back to work soonish.  If not I will care personally for
    the package (Charles, keep me updated if your time constraints
    might remain)

Kind regards

   Andreas.

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 06:08:22PM +0100, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 04:47:04PM +0000, Steve McIntyre a écrit :
> > 
> > I'm working through the list of build failures for armhf while we
> > bring up the new architecture, and I've just got to sra-sdk. I'm
> > concerned about the status of this package:
> > 
> >  * the only maintainer upload into Debian was many months ago
> >  * there is an RC bug open against it for months
> >  * it fails to build on any of the architectures in Debian apart from
> >    amd64 (as that's the uploaded architecture from the maintainer,
> >    it's not even clear that it will build there on a buildd)
> >  * a *very* low popcon score (vote ==0 !) suggests it has a very small
> >    number of users
> > 
> > Please re-consider if this package should be in the archive or not.
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> sra-sdk is a bioinformatics tool to be used in the context of computationally
> intensive tasks, which is why I have not pushed much its building on other
> platforms than amd64.  The packaging bug that prevents building on i386 is
> definitely to be fixed and I apologise for being slow on this.  But the rest, I
> think, is best-effort as its absence on other platforms is not a regression.
> 
> In the chain of data analysis, this program is at early steps as it is mostly
> used to unpack some biological sequence archives from the U. S. National Center
> for Biotechnology Information.  It is not frequently used, but on the other
> hand it is not a one-click install, and therefore the Debian package brings
> some added value.  Also, I feel that its role of unpacking public archives
> gives it another reason to stay in our free and universal system.
> 
> Build logs are here:
> 
>   http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-med/sra-sdk.git;a=blob;f=amd64.log;h=10a9060f1047416b022520077399c0554f99f45f;hb=546a25c253fbee56a7225c71e62d7f624dc63f28
> 
> I hope to work on the new upstream release soon, but for the moment by boss
> lured into working on a funding application during my holidays…
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Charles Plessy
> Debian Med team
> Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France
> 
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