[Debian-med-packaging] Please check hmmer2 autopkgtest

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Joshua,

in other words: The old release of 2.3.2 should be prefered over what
was commited as 2.5j to Debian packaging Git.  Is this correct?

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 10:07:05PM -0400, Joshua Marshall wrote:
> So not great news, I didn't commit anything to version control because it
> didn't get to stable.  It also doesn't look like anybody went over and
> patched the 2.x branch.  I can't give the time needed to tame this.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:44 PM Joshua Marshall <jrmarsha at mtu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > Ed made some design decisions which don't make a ton of sense for
> > software.  While the stated purpose of the programs is the same, they
> > actually offer different sets of functionality.  My initial introduction to
> > them, interpro scan, actually needed to use both versions because of this
> > feature split.  I wouldn't trust my branch right now.  Each time I went in
> > to fix or patch something up, it broke multiple other things.  I don't have
> > a good answer for you.  I have HMM code ready for testing, but it requires
> > C++20 features which I'm also having to implement and doesn't have the CLI
> > wrapping or trained model yet.
> >
> > Let me muck around with it tonight and get back to you.  I may be able to
> > patch it to a stable enough state where you can use it.  I remember leaving
> > it fairly close to usable.
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 8:55 AM Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Joshua,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 12:23:16PM -0400, Joshua Marshall wrote:
> >> > I've been poking at it here and there.  The thing is wound pretty tight
> >> so
> >> > I've just taken to a group up rework.  Check upstream for actual
> >> > support--he won't even talk to me.  Guy can get pretty dramatic.
> >>
> >> But what is your personal opinion about the code you commited to
> >>
> >>     https://github.com/MichiganTech/hmmer
> >>
> >> Are you using it?  Does it work for you?  Do you think it is worth to
> >> maintain a hmmer2 version in the long run despite hmmer3 is out?
> >>
> >> Kind regards
> >>
> >>       Andreas.
> >>
> >> --
> >> http://fam-tille.de
> >>
> >

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