[Debian-med-packaging] fast5 binary packages

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Afif,

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 05:02:27PM -0400, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> Hi, Steffen,
> Many thanks for updating fast5. Is it alright if I reorganize the
> executable packages? Rather than python-fast5-bin and python3-fast5-bin,
> just have a package "fast5" which contains the python3 executables.
> 
> A user who wants the executables should not need to care about how
> they're implemented, right? If you really want to provide both
> implementations, we should have a virtual package "fast5" and have
> python{,3}-fast5-bin both provide it, because just having the two
> packages and no virtual package requires the user to know about the
> program's implementation and presents them with an unnecessary decision
> to make.
> 
> I'll make the changes in a git branch and upload later if you have no
> strong objection.

Rather than objection:  When I've seen Steffen's changes I was
immediately tempted to do what you suggest but had no time to do
(and also wanted to see the package migrate to testing first).
Please go for it (right in the master branch).

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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