Le Tue, May 04, 2010 at 06:30:26PM -0700, Shaun Jackman a écrit :
>
> I've packaged GMAP:
> Align mRNA and EST sequences to a genome
> GMAP: Genomic Mapping and Alignment Program
> GSNAP: Genomic Short-read Nucleotide Alignment Program
>
> The ITP is here:
> http://bugs.debian.org/580277
>
> The git repository is here:
> git://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/gmap.git
> http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-med/gmap.git
Dear Shaun,
thank you very much for helping us to stay up to date in the field of
next-generation sequencing. Just out of curiosity, will you use the
package yourself, or did you prepare it for a friend or a colleague?
I had a look at your package and have the following comments:
- It is non-free:
‘Distribution of this Package as part of a commercial software product
requires
prior arrangement with the Developers.’
I updated debian/control accordingly. Since this license is not compatible
with
the GPL, I recommend that you chose another license for your packaging work,
in
order to avoid headaches in the future.
- We will have to be careful when doing modifications.
‘Distribution of a modified version of this Package requires prior
arrangement with the Developers.’
I am not sure of what it means for the manpages you wrote. If you have
written them
using the output of the programs as a template, they are a derivative of
them,
and the above may mean that we need agreement of the upstream developpers
before
redistributing them. But anyway, manpages are better to be forwarded
upstream. Have
you contacted them?
- Location of the databases.
I have seen ‘-DGMAPDB=\"/usr/share/gmap\"’ in the build logs. Does that mean
that the
users will have to install their databases there, or is there a way to
override
this path? In general, I think Debian users expect /usr/share to be
completely under
the control of the packaging system. Perhaps another path would be better?
- How to cite gmap.
I am preparing a system to transfer bibliographic information from the
packages VCS to the Ultimate Debian Database, so that sites like our web
sentinel can easily include this information. It is not finished yet, but you
can find more information here: http://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata
- Package description. How about this one:
Description: spliced and SNP-tolerant alignment programs for mRNA and short
reads
This package contains the GMAP and GSMAP programs to align biological
sequences, and additional utilities to manage genome databases in GMAP/GSNAP
format. GMAP (Genomic Mapping and Alignment Program) is a tool for aligning
cDNAs (complementary DNA) to reference genomes. GSNAP (Genomic Short-read
Nucleotide Alignment Program) is a tool for aligning single and paired-end
sequence reads as short as 14 nt and of arbitrarily long length. It can do de
novo discovery of splice sites (including interchromosomal splicing) or use a
datbase of known splice sites. It also tolerates known single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs) and can align bisulfite-treated DNA.
Maybe it would be good to propose to the authors to proofread this
description,
so that we are sure that I did not under- or over-estimate the possibilities
of their programs.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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