[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#922860: Packages do not contain the upstream README file

[Andreas Tille]

Hi John,

thanks as well for reading this package.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 01:29:50PM +0000, John Marshall wrote:
> Source: htslib
> 
> The packages built from this (notably libhts-dev,

I've fixed thie in Git[1]

> libhts2,

I do not think that it is necessary in this library package since the
README does not really contain information which is relevant for users
who simply install libhts2 as a dependency of other packages.

> the badly-named tabix)

Thanks for the interesting hint.  What better name would you suggest.  I
think its to late to change the name of the package for the upcoming
stable release but we would love to adapt to your wishes in the future.

> are missing the upstream release's README file. It would be good to install this file, even though it doesn't currently contain a great deal of salient information. (The upstream release's INSTALL file is also missing, but that is of course appropriate for binary packages.)

You are right.  Its usually a bad idea to provide the INSTALL file since
the software was just install in the binary package.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/htslib/commit/18fc49dd7454539a6276f75eb40775c96af37340

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