[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#733398: Bug#733398: Should we create a seqan1.3 package for bowtie and tophat

[Olivier Sallou]

On 02/21/2014 02:21 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since both packages bowtie (1.0!) and tophat stopped building from
> source since we switched to seqan 1.4 (both bug reports in CC) and
> upstream of both programs did not responded since > three weeks I wonder
> whether we should reintroduce a seqan 1.3 package to be able to build
> the packages again.  As far as I understood both have some relevance in
> several workflows and we should not leave these with release critical
> bugs.
those programs are indeed commonly used in bioinformatics  and are
really necessary.
Keeping an older version of seqan would be a good idea.

Olivier
>
> Any opinions?
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>

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