[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#821075: ncbi-tools6: This copy of tbl2asn is more than a year old

[Aaron M. Ucko]

Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> writes:

> Hi,

Hi, Andreas.

Thanks for the report!

> I agree that tbl2asn is correct here since the last upstream version is
> dated from 2012 - but that's a confusing message for users.

We support each stable release for multiple years anyway.  As such, I'm
inclined to disable this message altogether.  In the long term, I should
take another look at packaging the C++ Toolkit, which includes (among
many other things) a replacement app named table2asn.  Meanwhile, I've
been contemplating updating to an unofficial snapshot of ncbi-tools6.

> If you let me know your prefered solution I'd volunteer to implement
> it and upload the package.

No need, but I appreciate the offer.

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