[Debian-med-packaging] [ian.w.davis at gmail.com: Re: What are ndft files and how to edit these]

[Alexander Reichle-Schmehl]

Hi!

Yes, including this explanation would be very good.  I accepted the 
package in the meantime.


Best regards,
   Alexander

On 04.05.2012 17:45, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
>
> I'd regard it a borderline case.  Would you accept the package under
> these circumstances (possibly if we add this explanation into
> debian/copyright of next version which was just released and will
> be uploaded soon)?
>
> Kind regards
>
>       Andreas.
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 10:46:35 -0400
> From: Ian Davis<ian.w.davis at gmail.com>
> To: Andreas Tille<tille at debian.org>
> Cc: Vincent Chen<vbc3 at duke.edu>, "Vincent B. Chen"<vincent.chen at duke.edu>,
> 	Debian Med Packaging Team<debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: What are ndft files and how to edit these
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> Hi Andreas,
>
> The ndft files are N-dimensional scalar fields in binary format,
> representing the statistical density of various side-chain conformations.
> See http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/databases/rotamer.php, especially the
> Son Of download and its README file (
> http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/databases/READMEforTop500angleData.html).
> The binary format is straightforward but made up, you'd have to read the
> code in that download to reverse engineer the format, I don't remember it
> any more  :)  I think I called that package Silk, the one that contains the
> reader/writer code.
>
> The files are used by tools for rebuilding protein structure, to judge how
> (un)favorable a proposed conformation is.  Without them, those tools won't
> work, though other parts of KiNG may (or may not, depends how good my error
> handling code was).
>
> Best,
> Ian
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Andreas Tille<tille at debian.org>  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> our ftpmasters checked my upload of the king Debian package and had the
>> following question:
>>
>>    While checking your package I found some files of a type I don't know.
>>    What are ndft files (found in
>>    king-2.20.110601/chiropraxis/resource/chiropraxis/rotarama/*)?  How
>> would I edit them?
>>
>> The background is that we can not provide binary data without source
>> inside Debian if the user hase no chance (not even in theory) to change
>> these.
>>
>> In how far are these data needed to run King?
>>
>> Kind regards and thanks for providing King as Free Software
>>
>>      Andreas.
>>
>> --
>> http://fam-tille.de
>>
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