[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#732281: Bug#732281: soapdenovo: Please update package information or drop this package

[olivier.sallou at codeless.fr]

On 12/16/2013 11:25 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Package: soapdenovo
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi Olivier,
>
> I stumbled upon soapdenovo since on one hand there seems to be a watch
> file that for whatever reason reports a new version if you look at
>
>    http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#soapdenovo
>
> (even if I have no idea why since the d/watch in SVN reports nothing).
> On the other hand I realised that soapdenovo2 was missing from our tasks
> files (and was just added).
>
> When I inspected the homepage[1] I stumbled upon the information
>
>   "Please note that the old version of SOAPdenovo is out of maintainance
>    now, if you want to achieve the old version of SOAPdenovo, please
>    contact us (xieyl at genomics.cn or bgi-soap at googlegroups.com)."
>
> For me this does not necessarily mean that we should drop the package
> if there might be some users (popcon tells only one) but if we should
> keep this package we should definitely update the information in
> the package description + README.Debian.
hi,
we should not drop it. Many users may still use it at least for scripts
compatibility.
I switched to soapdenovo2 package due to those incompatibilities.

I will however update the description and README

Olivier
>
> Kind regards
>
>       Andreas.
>
> [1] http://soap.genomics.org.cn/soapdenovo.html#down2
>
>
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