[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#950311: FastQC users attention: Please comment on the remaining failures! (Was: Bug#950311: fastqc: autopkgtest regression: debhelper bump moved files to different location)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Tony,

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 12:19:17PM -0700, tony mancill wrote:
> 
> I spent a while looking into this bug (and thereby took a crash course
> in the Sequence Alignment Map file format)

May be I need such a crash course as well. ;-)

> So I think the tool is doing the right thing outputting FAIL for these
> files.  I propose that we update the test to ensure that a summary file is
> produced and contains the requisite number of lines for each of the data
> quality tests, and that each line contains one of "PASS|WARN|FAIL" to
> indicate that FastQC was able to run the tests.
> ...

This sounds all pretty convincing.  Feel free to do a team upload
implementing your suggestion.

Thanks a lot for your very helpful contribution

      Andreas.

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