[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#746484: file not distributable

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Peter,

thanks for your super-fast response.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:24:42PM +0100, Peter Cock wrote:
> Are you specifically asking about Biopython 1.63 here?

Yes.  Since I have added python3 binary packages Biopython 1.63 went
through manual inspection by ftpmaster and this issue was noticed.

> I think you
> can reasonable exclude this DTD file (and any others under the
> Bio/Entrez/DTD file). Biopython 1.63 will warn if they are missing
> but attempt to download them automatically.

OK.
 
> We're looking at dropping all the NCBI Entrez related DTD files,
> since the next Biopython release (v1.64) will automatically download
> AND cache them - see recent discussion, e.g.
> 
> http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/biopython-dev/2014-March/011205.html

That's fine.

> We haven't actually removed the files on GitHub yet, but this
> might be an incentive to do so.

OK, meanwhile (as long as 1.64 is not yet released) I will remove the
file from the Debian archive.

Thanks for the clarification

     Andreas.

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