[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#925499: Bug#925499: bowtie2 arm64 (aarch64) package

[Jun Aruga]

Hi Andreas,

Sorry for the late response.
Thanks for showing the mentoring program. I will look at the MoM.

> If you want to try packaging
>
>    https://github.com/nemequ/simde.git
>
> in a MoM project feel free to let me know.  It seems you are qualified
> in terms of beeing easily able to test it with bowtie2 on arm64
> hardware.

Andreas, I want to try the packaging of simde and bowtie2 to support Arm64.

At this moment, I just have the virtual arm64 environment. But near
future I am going to have a native arm64 server.
I also have some ways to test on arm64.

There is Works on Arm service that is to provide "free" aarch64 server
for mainly open source project.
I might recommend you to apply below server as DebianMed team, though
I do not know if we can use Debian on the server.
I think DebianMed team is qualified for that.

Works on Arm
https://www.worksonarm.com/cluster/

By the way, for the steps to support bowtie2 arm64.

> 3. Patch to run bowtie2 on arm64 (aarch64).

Yesterday, my pull-request to run bowtie2 on arm64 without a patch was merged.
It will be included in the coming next version of bowtie2. Yes! :)
https://github.com/BenLangmead/bowtie2/commit/c6a6648fcd05bff0e5ca64a305bb1c488beacbcf

So, now only below 2 steps.

* Packaging simde.
* Update bowtie2 to the latest version 2.3.5.

Jun