[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#730722: Bug#730722: t-coffee: will become a friend of ncbi-blast+ package

Aaron M. Ucko ucko at debian.org
Fri Nov 29 04:28:50 UTC 2013


Control: reassign -1 t-coffee
Control: retitle -1 t-coffee: please don't rely on legacy_blast's implementation language

Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org> writes:

> this is one of Debian's favorite waste of time: renaming programs and dealign
> with the incompatibilities that it causes.

I support this policy requirement (from section 10.4), which exists
because a program's choice of language is an implementation detail that
may well change over time, so installed executables should not bear
language-specific extensions.

Do you need me to send you a patch for t-coffee?

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