Le Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 02:03:44PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > I noticed that emboss-explorer was not updated upstream since 2006. It > would need some work due to #669738 and also has a (may be) upstream > problem #485735 nobody really wants to tackle. The popcon is very low > compared to other packages. I'm tempted to file a request for removal > for this package if nobody raises interest to care for this package or > can convince me seriously to spend some time into this.
Hi Andreas, I agree that we will not be able to keep emboss-explorer alive indefinitely. Also, there are other web interfaces to EMBOSS, for instance Mobyle (which is a web interface to many other tools). The emboss-explorer source package also builds the libemboss-acd-perl binary package, which I use to generate the manual pages for the EMBOSS tools. This is one reason for keeping it, although we could consider removing the emboss-explorer binary package anyway. Here are possible directions. - Remove emboss-explorer (source or binary), recommend Mobyle instead. For this, a tutorial on how to use Mobyle on Debian may help to motivate our users to follow the migration. - Package an alternative to emboss-explorer that is maintainerd upstream and less complex than Mobyle. - Call for help on some mailing list and forums, and for instance decide that if in one year emboss-explorer is still abandononed, we will remove it. Our emboss-explorer package is currently broken with the latest Apache; I will try to do the migration today, so that we have at least one final working version in snapshot.debian.org, as a service to our users (and perhaps myself). I do not mind if it is removed shortly after. PS: many thanks for your outstanding stream of updates recently. I hope that it inspires new members and potential newcomers for joining this effort ! Cheers, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130914020750.gb8...@falafel.plessy.net
