[Debian-med-packaging] Fwd: Re: Feature Suggestion with Patch - Please Advise

[Charles Plessy]

Le Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 12:35:32AM +0200, Laszlo Kajan a écrit :
> 
> 1: I can patch hmmer3 and put it into our in-house repository at
> <http://rostlab.org/debian/>. People interested can grab it from there.
> 
> 2: I can open a branch for hmmer3 in the DebMed repo, where I can commit my
> patches, and those who are interested can build it. We could put it into
> 'experimental'. This option works together with 1.
> 
> 3: I can patch hmmer3, mark these features as volatile/experimental wherever
> they are documented, with a note about Sean's intentions, and we can upload
> it into Debian as a new version. This way others may benefit from my patches
> most easily. However, those who start relying on the new features (and
> command line arguments) provided, will be upset (regardless of the warning)
> when the new command line arguments disappear. That is in case Sean brings
> out these features under other arguments, or with somewhat different meaning,
> or not at all (yet).

Dear Laszlo,

it is nice to see such contributions to upstream projects.  You are welcome
to open a branch in the hmmer3 in Debian Med's repository, especially that
the patches have been discussed on this list.  For the binary packages,
however, I am not entirely sure if an upload to experimental would be
the best, as one would rather expect there some builds based on upstream's
3.1 upcoming release.

So I would propose 1+2: upload the packages to rostlab.org, and commit
your changes in a branch on Alioth.

What do others think ?

Have a nice Sunday,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan