[Debian-med-packaging] Aegean and barrnap in Debian

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi Andreas,

>> Yes, I have seen that they were finally accepted after hanging in NEW for ages.
> 
> Well, the aceptance time can be qualifies as "undetermined".  I just had
> some packages with fast-processing.  So the good thing is that it ended
> up in unstable finally.  I guess the only way to change this is to
> volunteer doing ftpmaster work …

I’ll take my time until I volunteer there ;)

> 
>> DM upload permissions would be great indeed :)
> 
> Done.

Great, thanks a lot! Updated aegean to the most recent upstream version.

>> As far as barrnap is concerned, I have just spoken to Torsten Seemann, the upstream author. He is currently visiting our group at Sanger, and he happily agreed to take care of removing the annoying license issue for the SILVA derived HMMs. Also see https://github.com/tseemann/barrnap/issues/13. I’d say that’s good news!
> 
> Definitely.  Its also a good sign that we have some influence on
> upstream (I wished this would happen even more often).

Indeed!

> 
>> Hence I will just update the current barrnap package to not suggest the non-existent non-free package any more and to reflect the current git release (0.7). 
> 
> OK.

I will see if I can get it done today, otherwise it will probably take another day or so.

> PS: I wonder whether Jorge is working on fastaq which is lagging
>    behind upstream a lot.

Since Jorge is no longer working at Sanger, I’m afraid I don’t really know. It might help to ping him directly by email via his personal address. When in doubt, I also wouldn’t mind adopting the fastaq package.

Cheers
Sascha