[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#671524: Dropping coverage patch in Samtools ?

[Charles Plessy]

Le Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 02:51:13PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System a écrit :
> 
> Changes: 
>  samtools (0.1.18-2) unstable; urgency=low
>  .
>    * added patch to fix segfault in mpileup (Closes: #544976)
>    * added patch to fix coverage cap (Closes: #671524)

Hi Dominique and everybody,

in recent versions of samtools, the mpileup command has a new option
to specify the coverage at run time.

Would it be fine to drop our patch that was raising the default coverage cap
from 8,000 to 1,000,000 ?  If yes, do you think we need to mention it as a NEWS
entry ?

Here is a link to our patch: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/samtools.git/tree/debian/patches/fix_coverage_cap.patch.

And here is a link to the pull request where I was informed about the new option.

https://github.com/samtools/samtools/issues/284

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles