[Debian-med-packaging] BioPython unit tests: Samtools

[Peter Cock]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 09:36:48AM +0100, Peter Cock wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Saket!
>>
>> Andreas - this will be a fairly substantial patch adding new
>> functionality, so I would suggest for the Debian package of
>> Biopython 1.65 you simply ignore test_samtools_tool .py
>> (e.g. rename to something like skip_test_samtools_tool.py
>> - anything not matching test_*.py would work, or even
>> delete it?)
>
> I currently have a mechanism to skip tests.  I simply went through all
> the tests I was skipping to check whether this is needed or whether the
> tests might run now.  Since this is the last remaining test in this
> category my effort was worth doing it and I can easily cope with the
> situation.  I'm happy that I was ringing a bell at your side to enable
> BioPython dealing with new samtools in the future.
>
> Thanks for your effort
>
>      Andreas.
>

Thanks Andreas,

That's great. I've opened a Biopython GitHub issue for this:
https://github.com/biopython/biopython/issues/625

Thanks again for your periodic reports from the Debian testing,
they've been really helpful for catching incompatibilities with
updates to external tools.

Regards,

Peter