[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1010653: busco: add autopkgtest to check integration with hmmer and prodigal

[Andrius Merkys]

Source: busco
Version: 5.3.2-2
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

As of 5.3.2-2, busco runs its build time tests during autopkgtest, which
is great. In addition, busco uses Debian-provided hmmer and prodigal
packages, but build time tests do not cover integration with these
tools. Thus it would be great to have an autopkgtest checking that (see
#1010568 for discussion). An example of busco call to execute could look
like this:

$ busco -i $FNA_FILE -l $LINEAGE -o output -m genome --offline

There is a couple of FNA files (for $FNA_FILE) given in test_data/ which
could be used for autopkgtest. For $LINEAGE, a matching genome should be
downloaded from BUSCO database [1] and specified. To have BUSCO lineages
in the archive their licensing details have to be clarified as the data
does not contain any explicit statements.

[1] https://busco-data.ezlab.org/v5/data/lineages/

Andrius