[Debian-med-packaging] New version of vsearch (1.4) (Was: Debian package for vsearch)

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 05:01:28PM +0200, Torbjørn Rognes wrote:
> 
> > I perfectly understood this (where to find the data as well as I assumed
> > the reason for this).  I would have the option to construct a new
> > tarball incorporating the code plus the data.  However, this is only the
> > second best solution compared to simply download an official tarball.
> > So I wonder whether you are interested in possibly providing a tarball
> > (may be xz or bz2 compressed which reduces the size drastically) may be
> > under the name vsearch+data-<version>.tar.xz.  If you would do this it
> > would be a slight comfort for me but I could also cope with the
> > situation in case you simply confirm that you do not intend to do so.
> 
> I have made a release in the vsearch-data repo that includes the data files compressed with gzip, zip as well as bz2 and xz. The xz compressed file is still about 75MB, but most of the files are required to run the vsearch tests. That is what I can provide for now. Hopefully we can provide a better set of test scripts and smaller test datasets in the future.

Thanks for doing this.  I'll draft a separate package from this and will
implement the according tests. 

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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