[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#702916: Bug#702916: Package description: data bank or database?

[Olivier Sallou]

Le 3/12/13 11:22 PM, Martin Eberhard Schauer a écrit :
> Package: src:biomaj
> Version: 1.2.1-1
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-l10n-english at lists.debian.org
>
> Dear Debian Med Maintainers,
>
> are you sure the package descriptions are what you intended to say?
>
>    Package: biomaj
>    Description: biological data-bank updater
>     BioMAJ downloads remote data banks, checks their status and applies
>     transformation workflows, with consistent state, to provide
> ready-to-use
>     data for biologists and bioinformaticians. For example, it can
> transform
>     original FASTA files into BLAST indexes. It is very flexible and its
>     post-processing facilities can be extended very easily.
>
>    Package: biomaj-properties
>    Description: biological data-bank updater - example properties files
>     This package contains a set of data bank properties files that can be
>     used as examples for BioMAJ. It contains descriptions for many
> existing
>     data banks with or without workflows to transform data. Some files
> may
>     require additional programs (such as BLAST) for post-processing.
>
> I wonder what a "data bank" is. Did you intentionally use it instead of
> database?
Hi,
we do not mean database but really data bank. This is a term commonly
used by targeted audience i.e. bioinformatics.
A data bank relates to a set of data files containing (in our context)
biological informations. Often, those are flat files.


Olivier
>
> The first sentence of the long description for biomaj-properties also
> sounds
> strange to me.
>
> I would be glad if the suggested patch proves as improvement.
>
> Kind regards,
>    Martin
>
>
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