[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#753485: Bug#753485: Status of samtools

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Charles,

On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 08:09:56PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 
> I uploaded version 1.0 in experimental for only two reasons:
> 
>  - first, I wanted to test it more, and give opportunity to others to test
>    it as well,

I do not think that packages in experimental really get any serious
testing.
 
>  - second, I was not sure if dynamic linking was fully supported since it
>    requires patching the makefile.
> 
> My current plan is to wait a bit more if there is a new upstream version that
> would solve all of this (and include our patches that I forwarded on GitHub).
> But if such an update does not come soon, then I (or others) should upload
> samtools to Unstable.
> 
> Regarding the portability, I do not know if the 1.x line will induce
> regressions or not, but if this is the case, I would like to solve the problem
> by dropping support for the failing architectures, unless the upstream
> developers show interest for them.

I'd bear the risk of porting problems since at some point in time we
need to move on with upstream anyway.  *If* we might face some porting
problems we can think about them in the specific cases.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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