[Debian-med-packaging] Fwd: Seqan2 (Was: Bug#798637: what about the ROM request)

[Kevin Murray]

Hi all,

On 22:24 19/09, Sascha Steinbiss wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> >> BTW, nice to see progress on seqan2 :) Once that’s through NEW I have a small addition to make that would also get lambda-align in (and probably more seqan2 dependent tools built with their CMake module).
> > 
> > Please make sure to deal with any issues raised by ftpmaster since I
> > definitely can't do anything for seqan2 any more the next 2.5 weeks.
> 
> Looks like that wasn’t necessary as seqan2 is now in unstable :)

Woohoo! Thanks heaps folks.

> 
> > Please also ask removal of seqan-apps coming from seqan (1.x) package
> > to enable testing migration.
> 
> Just took a look — I wonder why https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=seqan <https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=seqan> also lists seqan-dev as missing for the archs in question, but in fact was always arch:all. This shouldn’t be RM’d, right?! I can see that seqan-apps is now built by src:seqan2, but AFAICS the old seqan-dev can and should stay?
> 
> > I hope to see seqan 1 and 2 in testing once I'm back. :-)
> 
> So do I, I’ll also make sure to add the seqan2 CMake modules so we can build other stuff depending on seqan2.

I've recently been in correspondence[1] with the developers about the
documentation. They seem keen to ensure that it is shipped and old or non-DFSG
parts removed. Their ETA for this is "November", so we'll wait and see.

Cheers,
K

[1]: https://github.com/seqan/seqan/issues/1820

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Kevin Murray