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

[John Marshall]

On 21 Feb 2019, at 16:20, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 03:42:00PM +0000, John Marshall wrote:
>> I used to imagine distros would call this libhts-utils or similar, as it provides several command-line utilities that are bundled with HTSlib. But perhaps Debian has been shipping a tabix package since the pre-htslib samtools 0.1.x days and would like to keep with that tradition.
> 
> Well, we can just keep that suggestion.  If we will rename tabix to
> libhts-utils (what else than tabix should be contained here?) this
> package can "Provides: tabix" for compatibility and upgrades.

It's been bgzip+htsfile+tabix for a few years now. In theory more utilities might be added that had more natural homes in src:htslib than in {sam,bcf}tools, but it's probably pretty unlikely.

>> Thanks for responding to this ridiculously quickly!
> 
> My intention is to maintain as best as possible cooperation to our
> upstreams and beeing quick and responsive is part of this.  It will
> not always work that fast, but at least we try hard.

That's great and I'm sure upstream will appreciate that.

Me, I am no longer one of the core HTSlib/samtools/etc maintainers. I'm just an interested bystander with a deep knowledge of the codebase, making what should be eventually self-evident statements about the code. What you choose to do with those statements is up to you :-) and I am sure will depend on the value of the statements themselves not where they come from!

    John