<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Andreas Tille <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andreas@fam-tille.de">andreas@fam-tille.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 07:49:12PM +0000, Eric Talevich wrote:<br>
> ...<br>
> trunk/packages/hmmer/trunk/debian/hmmer.NEWS<br>
> ...<br>
> Modified: trunk/packages/hmmer/trunk/debian/hmmer.NEWS<br>
> ===================================================================<br>
> --- trunk/packages/hmmer/trunk/debian/hmmer.NEWS 2010-07-08 19:40:25 UTC (rev 5007)<br>
> +++ trunk/packages/hmmer/trunk/debian/hmmer.NEWS 2010-07-08 19:49:11 UTC (rev 5008)<br>
> @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@<br>
> +hmmer (3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low<br>
> +<br>
> + Transition to 3.0 release, the pvm package is<br>
> + no longer supported.<br>
> +<br>
> + -- you <> Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:06:36 -0400<br>
> +<br>
<br>
I have observed in the past that it is recommended to use the NEWS file<br>
only in very rare cases because it usually interrupts the installation<br>
process for manual interaction if you are using apt-listchanges. I<br>
personally do not know the details of hmmer-pvm but I would only use this<br>
NEWS entry if there might be some interfaces (user created scripts) might<br>
be broken because some binaries are not available any more. If there<br>
might be a drop in replacement with same interface (or if this could be<br>
created via a wrapper script) I would leave out the NEWS paragraph.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Hello,<br><br>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.<br>
<br>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:<br><br>- 'hmmpfam' is renamed to 'hmmscan', <br>
- 'hmmcalibrate' is gone, no longer needed<br>- programs that kept the same name generally take different options now<br>- several new binaries are added<br><br>Should that go in the NEWS file instead?<br><br>Best,<br>
Eric<br></div></div>