[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1043686: Please provide a proper download location for beads

[Andreas Tille]

Dear Filippo,

Am Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 10:42:48AM +0200 schrieb Filippo Rusconi:
> Greetings, Andreas, 
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/beads/-/commit/f078c60b619b6ebf92b3c4450a8815afd0e0f7bf
> 
> is a very old modification by myself, and it looks like this has been
> done in salsa only, not in the laboratory's git repos.

Thanks a lot for the clarification.

> Frankly, this software is no more maintained and 2-D
> electrophoretic gels are a thing of the past.

I perfectly trust your insight here.  However, for what strange reason I
just noticed some bump in usage stats[1] (possibly the number of
installations increased due to Blends added to the installer, but there
is also a slight increase in the real usage (green line) ).

Since my main point (watch file reporting something I do not understand)
is now clarified I've fixed the remaining bug (easy) and uploaded.

> I would drop this package from Debian.

We can do so once facing the next problem. ;-)

Have a nice day
   Andreas.


[1] https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=beads&show_installed=on&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1

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