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

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 04:51:52PM +0000, John Marshall wrote:
> 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.

OK.  We should address this past the next stable release.  So this
bug should be left open until then.
 
> >> 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!

To me all your remarks are pretty sensible.  I need to admit that I'm
**personally** not a htslib / samtools user.  I'm just trying to support
other users who are frequently to less involved to write qualified bug
reports.  Please keep on watching the packaging in Debian.

Thank you

      Andreas.

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