[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#806675: HMMER 3.1b2-2

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Travis,

On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:12:25PM -0700, Travis Wheeler wrote:
> Andreas -
> 
> I notice that you recently posted a changelog "hmmer 3.1b2-2 source
> package in Ubuntu", in which you indicate a plan to "restrict
> architectures to Intel architectures".
> (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hmmer/3.1b2-2)

To be correct:  I never ever posted anything on Ubuntu nor am I familiar
with launchpad at all.  I'm a Debian developer working inside the Debian
Med team that cares for packages in the field of biology and medicine
inside Debian.  I have no idea at all what might become propagated to
some Ubuntu channels where you somehow recived this news.

> I'm one of the HMMER developers.

Great. :-)

> I'm not familiar enough with the
> launchpad infrastructure to ask questions within its framework, so I'm
> e-mailing you directly.

Since you indicated that you would have directed your question to a
public forum I keep the relevant bug log in CC[1] (simply "answer to
all recipients" to do the same).

> May I ask why you're suggesting a restricted
> architecture? HMMER is written to work across many architectures,
> including AMD.

AMD remains supported.  I just forwarded the problem described in the
Debian bug #806675 to Sean Eddy who was mentioned as contact address
for HMMER and I have quotet his response in the packaging metadata[2].
I'd be delighted to hear that HMMER would also be able to run on
specifially arm64.

> Your post mentions bug 806675, but that doesn't seem to
> be related to HMMER.

I would be delighted to hear that you would be able to solve the issue
described in the Debian bug[1] and if so it would be very easy to drop
the architecture restriction again.

Kind regards and thanks a lot for your input

     Andreas.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/806675
[2] https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/hmmer/trunk/debian/README.source?view=markup
 

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