[Debian-med-packaging] r5008 - in trunk/packages/hmmer/trunk/debian: . source

Eric Talevich eric.talevich at gmail.com
Sun Jul 11 03:02:29 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 07:49:12PM +0000, Eric Talevich wrote:
> > ...
> >    trunk/packages/hmmer/trunk/debian/hmmer.NEWS
> > ...
> > Modified: trunk/packages/hmmer/trunk/debian/hmmer.NEWS
> > ===================================================================
> > --- trunk/packages/hmmer/trunk/debian/hmmer.NEWS      2010-07-08 19:40:25
> UTC (rev 5007)
> > +++ trunk/packages/hmmer/trunk/debian/hmmer.NEWS      2010-07-08 19:49:11
> UTC (rev 5008)
> > @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
> > +hmmer (3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
> > +
> > +  Transition to 3.0 release, the pvm package is
> > +  no longer supported.
> > +
> > + -- you <>  Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:06:36 -0400
> > +
>
> I have observed in the past that it is recommended to use the NEWS file
> only in very rare cases because it usually interrupts the installation
> process for manual interaction if you are using apt-listchanges.  I
> personally do not know the details of hmmer-pvm but I would only use this
> NEWS entry if there might be some interfaces (user created scripts) might
> be broken because some binaries are not available any more.  If there
> might be a drop in replacement with same interface (or if this could be
> created via a wrapper script) I would leave out the NEWS paragraph.
>
>
Hello,

Sorrry about that. Steffen was helping me quickly get set up to do Debian
packaging during the BOSC Codefest, and I admit I didn't spend much time on
the text. I'll behave better now.

For HMMer: I'm not sure exactly how the change from PVM to MPI affects end
users, but the package does include some other changes they should be aware
of. Most notably:

- 'hmmpfam' is renamed to 'hmmscan',
- 'hmmcalibrate' is gone, no longer needed
- programs that kept the same name generally take different options now
- several new binaries are added

Should that go in the NEWS file instead?

Best,
Eric
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