[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#848335: Bug#848335: CI for filo (Was: Outreachy 2017 (Round 14))

[Charles Plessy]

Le Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 09:41:47AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 10:54:14AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
>  
> >  * shuffle has for shure many possible alternatives elsewhere.
> 
> Could you name some?  Do we need to package something?

`shuf` or `sort -R` from the coreutils package; I think that they were not
widely available when `shuffle` from filo was written.

> >  * stats was handy, but I think that it is quite superseded by datamash.
> 
> I noticed that datamash was mentioned in med-cloud task.  I added it in
> addition to filo in med-bio as well as in science-statistics.  I wished
> we would care more for those metainformation to make users aware of
> otherwise hidden tools.  If datamash is important for our target user
> group we should also convince the current maintainer to consider team
> maintenance in either Debian Med or Debian Science.

I think that datamash is more generic.  Also, while it was inspired by
bedtools' groupBy, it did not gain a large user base.  `stats` for filo
was even less used (which is why nobody complained that it is in /usr/lib/).

Cheers,

-- 
Charles