Hi, I can try to engage the author on this. Could you drop me a list of things that you would like to see changed? Is it just this? Or do you need more stuff?
On 29 July 2016 at 08:13, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tiago, > [CC ing the Debian Med list about tha genepop topic] > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 09:37:35AM -0600, Tiago Antão wrote: > > > On a more positive note, would you consider packaging genepop for debian? > > That thing is GPL and used by a lot of people (check the citations on > > scholar), it is one of the biggest bioinformatic applications of all time > > and completely ignored by Linux distributions. > > Why not. However, is there any *direct* link to the sources. > At > > http://kimura.univ-montp2.fr/~rousset/Genepop.htm > > I just found a not properly versioned download file > > http://kimura.univ-montp2.fr/%7Erousset/GenepopV4.tar.gz > > that contains thre archives including executables. If the web page says > it is version 4.5.1 the tarball should feature this number to make clear > that the download is really the version a user wants. It is the same > download name for version 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 ... grrrrr. > > If you have contact to this project please be so kind to teach them > about proper versioning. The easiest would be to use some of the well > known development platforms (gitlab, github, sf, etc.) since these have > some tools to properly create versioned tarballs. > > Kind regards and thanks for the hint > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de >
