[Debian-med-packaging] Fwd: Updating Hmmer2 request

[Fabian Klötzl]

Hi,

In order for your changes to make it into Debian you may want to rebase
them onto 2.3.2, split them into appropriate chunks and check that your
patches don't conflict with any of the existing ones [1]. Then send them
to this mailing list, so we can try to integrate them.

As for the PVM/pthreads issue, I fear that I am not proficient enough to
judge which one is better and/or should be used.

Fabian

1: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/hmmer2/tree/master/debian/patches


On 21.04.2018 15:00, Joshua Marshall wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Can I get a firm stance on this?
> 
> Hello Fabian,
>>
>>> On 13.04.2018 19:47, Joshua Marshall wrote:
>>
>> which enable pthreads by default, remove support for PVM
>>>>
>>> Could you please go into detail, why you think this change is
>>> necessary/an improvement?
>>>
>> Right!  So there was pthread support baked in, but seemed to be a somewhat
>> hidden option in the version 2 series of the program. Everything tests
>> fine, but development of version two was largely abandoned before pthreads
>> predominated the free development space as they do today.  In terms of PVM,
>> it is no longer supported or maintained or even for this domain useful
>> anymore.  It made sense when memory was extremely constrained so you could
>> have one program use the memory space of several machines.  That isn't a
>> problem with any current data set -- even the biggest plant genomes.