[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#848735: [biocore/pynast] Test suite failures with latest version of Blast (#19)

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 09:52:57AM -0800, Greg Caporaso wrote:
> Hi @tillea, PyNAST has never support BLAST+, rather only legacy BLAST,

Well, it seems with the provided patch it could work.

> and I'm in the process of trying to phase it out in favor of better tools for alignment. Do you have an idea of how many users it has from this distribution?

In Debian we have so called popularity contest that users can switch on
voluntarily - so the numbers are probably lower than the real usage.  We
also do not have numbers of Debian derivatives like Ubuntu and others.
Here you can see a graph of the popcon numbers:

  https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=pynast

The most important number of the current usage is vote (=67) which is
the number of people who use this package regularly (not just hanging
around unused on the hard disk).

> If not many, it might make more sense for you to drop support for it as I'm essentially hoping to discontinue this project (though I haven't officially decided to do that yet). 

When comparing with other packages maintained by Debian Med this would
have some bad influence on the workflow of several users.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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