[Debian-med-packaging] How are bed files created? (Was: trinculo_0.96+dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)

[Andreas Tille]

Liubov,

you are great! :-)

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 06:21:17PM +0200, Liubov Chuprikova wrote:
> I have just checked the file and as Michael said during the Jitsi meeting,
> Plink (in Debian) uses such a format. I just tried quickly and it's
> possible to convert the file back to flat format:
> 
> plink1 --bfile examples/genotypes --recode --tab --out genotypes --noweb
> 
> and back to binary, here three files will be created: *.bed, *.fam, *.bim
> (those are in examples folder):
> 
> plink1 --file genotypes --make-bed --out genotypes --noweb
> 
> So, the binary can be excluded and replaced by a flat version of the file.

I'd recommend to put the text version in debian/tests and simply use
this file.  It could be explained in debian/README.source.  So no need
to strip the file from source tarball.

Pranav, is this advise clear enough or should I implement it quickly.
 
> Regards,
> Liubov

Thanks again

     Andreas.

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