Dear Andreas, Many thanks for your email. Indeed, the debian package should not be in the distributed tar.gz, I will fix that. One important thing: MafFilter depends on the Bio++ libraries, which are packaged for debian, but not up to date. The packager was Loic Dachary, but he admitted having no time anymore for doing this (which I can fully imagine :) ). I would love to see Bio++ again up to date in debian, and would be very happy to help.
The last "official" distribution of MafFilter is 1.1.0. More recent versions need the development version of Bio++, and therefore we do not provide packages for them yet. We are planning however a new release of Bio++ (and therefore MafFilter), but no timeline is fixed, so I guess version 1.1.0 should be used at the moment. We recently migrated Bio++ to github. Would that be helpful if I would also put MafFilter on github? I could more easily include patches if needed... Best regards, Julien. On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Julien, > > I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team - a subgroup inside > Debian with the objective to package free software with relevance in > medicine and biology. Due to a user request I intend to package > MafFilter[1]. > > I noticed that your download tarball includes some debian/ dir. I will > use parts of it for the official packaging but I would advise to drop > this dir from the download. There are several good reasons for it - one > of these might be that users who download the tarball might think there > is no official package and ignore the officially maintained version they > could easily get via apt (once the package is ready). > > I have some further questions: The website says: > > Current version is 1.1.2 > > However, the download page[2] has only 1.1.0-1. Could you please > provide also the latest version as source download? > > The source download contains some large *.log files and files names > *.ps.raw. I wonder whether these files are really used or whether these > should be deleted from the download. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > [1] http://biopp.univ-montp2.fr/forge/maffilter > [2] http://biopp.univ-montp2.fr/repos/sources/maffilter/ > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > -- Julien Y. Dutheil, Ph-D 0 (+49) 6421 178 986 § Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology Molecular Systems Evolution Department of Evolutionary Genetics Plön -- GERMANY § Institute of Evolutionary Sciences - Montpellier University of Montpellier 2 -- FRANCE
