[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#798051: picard-tools: New upstream versions, new upstream repository and new upstream source code organization

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Vincent,

On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 10:11:41PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote:
>   I've been asked to install in a lab the last version of picard-tools.
> Seing it's already packaged in Debian, I was very pleased. But I discovered
> that the lattest version are not packaged. Moreover, uscan does not
> detect the new versions!
>   Looking more closely, I see that upstream move from sourceforge to
> github and reorganized its sources. See the details here:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/samtools/mailman/message/32282849/

Thanks for the heads up.
 
>   Do you plan to try to update picard-tools? (last upstream version is
> 1.138, currently packaged version is 1.113, the last one on sourceforge)
> 
>   Do you want I try to help you to package the new version? It will probably
> involve creating a new source package (htsjdk) along picard-tools.

It would be great if you could help with this update (and its
dependencies).  Feel free to add youself as Uploader to this package.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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