Hi Charles, hi Andreas, yes, progressive alignments seem to be less used now. But ClustalW is and remains a classical application. I was not aware that it's inclustion with Debian is in danger, I must admit. The builds are not performed automatically since the package is in non-free. And since I am not a DD, I cannot log in to all the other architectures myself. In two years time things may be different, but for now, I think, Debian should indeed provide the package.
All the smallish improvements to make the ClustalW less quirky were scheduled for the next upstream release (which has not come for a long time) or for me to have been accepted as a DD. Just because the effort for the non-free package is rather high and I need to ask for a DD to do it for me. Neither has yet come, so I ask now: Please, somebody step in and recompile on all the many architectures. Charles, the change of the maintainer entry is just fine. Many greetings Steffen > I just realised that clustalw is not in testing. It will be difficult to > satisfy our users in those conditions. Just look at the following graph: http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?packages=kalign+dialign+probcons+clustalx+clustalw+muscle+t-coffee+poa+amap-align+sigma-align&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&beenhere=1 > > ClustalW and ClustalX are still the most popular softwares for multiple > alignment. Interestingly, there is a concommitant drop in the number of > users of these two programs, and increase of users of the new alignment > software I packaged. But I fear that if clustalw is not available, there > will be a big drop of users instead of a migration to free packages. > > http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=clustalw > > Apparently, what clustalw needs is to be built on more arches. It was > NMUed, but only on i386. Do you think it would be fair to ask the author > of the NMU to finish the work on other arches, or is there a DD on this > list who could try to rescue the situation ? > > We are running against time. Give the discussions on -devel, I am not > sure that clustalw would be accepted in testing after the freeze. > > PS: this would be a good opportunity to integrate my patch for > freedesktop support. http://bugs.debian.org/380715 > > PS2: Also, I think that Steffen wouldn't mind if the Maintainer was > changed to the mail list of the debian-med packaging team. Steffen, can > you confirm that the following would be OK ? > > Maintainer: Debian-Med Packaging Team > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Uploaders: Steffen Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Charles Plessy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Have a nice day, > > -- > Charles Plessy > http://charles.plessy.org > Wako, Saitama, Japan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
