Re: [MoM] Re: kmer-tools

2015-05-09 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Hi, Andreas, On الجمعـة 8 أيار 2015 00:28, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Afif, On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 11:07:14PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote: Here are the next steps I see: - Remove convenience copies of packaged dependencies (via get-orig-source) and modify the build system (using quilt patches)

Re: [MoM] Re: kmer-tools

2015-05-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Afif, On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 03:34:22AM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > >>- Remove convenience copies of packaged dependencies (via > >>get-orig-source) and modify the build system (using quilt patches) > >>to use existing Debian packages for them > > I did this for kazlib. Fine. > The other

Bug#784863: ITP: kmer-tools -- suite of tools for DNA sequence analysis

2015-05-09 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Med Team * Package name: kmer-tools Version : 20141114+1994 Upstream Author : Brian Walenz * URL : http://kmer.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : suite of tools for DNA sequ

Re: [MoM] Re: kmer-tools

2015-05-09 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Hi, Andreas, On السبت 9 أيار 2015 08:51, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Afif, On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 03:34:22AM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote: - Remove convenience copies of packaged dependencies (via get-orig-source) and modify the build system (using quilt patches) to use existing Debian packages f

Re: [MoM] Re: kmer-tools

2015-05-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Afif, On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 01:30:23PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > >>The other dependency seems to be a strange > >>case. It is mt19937ar[1] (I'm not 100% if this is the correct link, > >>but I believe it is), which I thought was in Debian as the package > >>libghc-mersenne-random-dev [2],

Bug#784863: ITP: kmer-tools -- suite of tools for DNA sequence analysis

2015-05-09 Thread Afif Elghraoui
[Forwarding because I inadvertently left out the Debbugs-Cc header when originally submitting this] Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Med Team * Package name: kmer-tools Version : 20141114+1994 Upstream Author : Brian Walenz * URL : http://kmer.sour

Re: [MoM] Re: kmer-tools

2015-05-09 Thread Afif Elghraoui
Hi, Andreas, On السبت 9 أيار 2015 15:13, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Afif, Yes, I need help. I've done some more reading and the situation is that: - upstream uses an apparently modified version of the random number generator mt19937ar [1] - The developers of mt19937ar have a whole suite of impl

Re: [MoM] Re: kmer-tools

2015-05-09 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 04:10:15PM -0700, Afif Elghraoui wrote: > >>From my point of view the tests are designed to reproduce expected > >results. A software should not break if a depencency is upgraded. The > >later is a totally normal thing and happens all the time. So if you do > >not have an