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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Charles,

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 08:16:19AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 
> I am back from holidays, conference and hiking :)

I hope you enjoyed everything. :-)
 
> I forgot about libbam-dev…  It is dropped by the latest version of samtools,
> which switched to the HTSlib.
> 
> What I can do is rename the old samtools source package "libbam", make it build
> libbam-dev only, and upload it to NEW.  What do you think about this ?

This sounds like the most straightforward way to get libbam-dev back.
We need it seriously since a chain of dependency is based on it.  We
also should ping ftpmaster for fast-processing since I see several
packages in danger not to make it into Jessie.

Please ping me if you need any help.

Kind regards

         Andreas.

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