Re: Debian package bcftools

2020-06-14 Thread Steffen Möller
Actually, I appreciate your forward to this mailing list - it is some nice food for thought. We may yet have been mostly concerned about maintainability, less so on specifying fractions of workflows that complete workflows. @Gulio, are you are of the --no-install-recommends option to apt-get inst

Re: Debian package bcftools

2020-06-14 Thread Giulio Genovese
Hi Steffen, Thank you for your reply. Yes, I am aware of the --no-install-recommends option but currently the bcftools package has the following dependencies: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libhts3 (>= 1.10), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), perl:any Suggests: python, python-numpy, python-matplotlib, texlive-latex

Re: Debian package bcftools

2020-06-14 Thread Steffen Möller
Hi Giulio, How would you like the idea to have both Perl and Python as recommended and only leave the latex as suggested? What should then happen is that we place this as a bug report against bcftools. The maintainer (should) see(s) this and you will be informed when the upload happened that impl

Re: Debian package bcftools

2020-06-14 Thread Giulio Genovese
Hi Steffen, Yes, that would be great. I didn't even know there was a three tier of mandatory/recommended/suggested packages, or I would have suggested the same solution you proposed to begin with. I am a bit new to this so I would be happy to help in the way I can if you want to talk me through it

Re: Debian package bcftools

2020-06-14 Thread Steffen Möller
Excellent, please  * get an account on salsa.debian.org and request membership with the med-team  * find a tutorial on how git works, not to know everything but so you can distinguish branches from tags  * have a Debian machine (or a cloud/docker instance) with Debian unstable so you can install b

Anybody volunteering to try to save falcon in Debian (Was: Bug#936503: falcon: Python2 removal in sid/bullseye)

2020-06-14 Thread Antoni Villalonga
Hi, > Any reader of the Debian Med list who wants to spent time to discuss this > with upstream to save falcon in Debian? Open issue: https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/FALCON_unzip/issues/160 Regards, -- Antoni Villalonga https://friki.cat/