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

[Charles Plessy]

Le Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:43:00AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> I do not think that education is a waste of time ... provided that
> besided the renaming we are educating our upstreams to make their
> programs better.  I do not see any reason why we should stop teaching
> upstream if it goes beyond security issues.  Our policy was not invented
> out of thin air and spreading useful principles to our upstream will
> finally serve all people who get in touch with the software in question.

Hi Andreas and everybody,

I think that it is a pure waste of time.

How many of our packages have been reimplemented in a different language,
keeping a full API compatibility and without changing the name ?  To my
knowledge, non of them.

I am not willing to do that extra work of maintaining pedantic patches or to
deal with the incompatibilities and removed myself from the Uploaders of
t-coffee.

Let me repeat it: most of my colleagues are not using Debian and this idiotic
policy is making my work incompatble with their machines and our clusters.  You
know, at work, we have to produce.  Using Debian is sometimes an obstacle to
this, and this really annoys me.  Let's be practical, please ?

Cheers,

-- 
Charles