[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#956850: ncbi-blast+: Please provide /usr/bin/legacy_blast

[Andreas Tille]

Package: ncbi-blast+
Version: 2.9.0-4
Severity: normal

Hi,

I'm aware that language extensions in Debian are not conform to
policy.  However, as we discussed in

  https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2018/06/msg00043.html

only stripping the extension is sometimes hard for rdepends of our
packages.  In this case the lack of blastpgp.pl requires heavy patching
of t-coffee which could be avoided if we would provide both versions -
legacy_blast.pl and legacy_blast - one of both as symlink.

Kind regards and thanks for maintaining ncbi-blast+
       Andreas.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'), (50, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE:de (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages ncbi-blast+ depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0      1.0.8-2
ii  libc6           2.30-4
ii  libgcc-s1       10-20200324-1
ii  libgomp1        10-20200324-1
ii  liblmdb0        0.9.24-1
ii  libmbedcrypto3  2.16.5-1
ii  libmbedtls12    2.16.5-1
ii  libpcre3        2:8.39-12+b1
ii  libstdc++6      10-20200324-1
ii  ncbi-data       6.1.20170106+dfsg1-8
ii  perl            5.30.0-9
ii  python3         3.8.2-3
ii  zlib1g          1:1.2.11.dfsg-2

ncbi-blast+ recommends no packages.

ncbi-blast+ suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information