Fine by me. Looks like it isn't needed by trinityrnaseq anymore, so that build-depends can be dropped.
Unfortunately it is a dependency on the recently packaged bio-tradis, as I think you are aware. 2017-11-10 10:16 GMT+02:00 Andreas Tille <[email protected]>: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > I'm opening this bug also for discussion on the Debian Med list. > > The situation with r-bioc-edger is the following: In the recent package > locfit was only used for testing the package and the test was simply > removed > by a patch. In all later upstream versions locfit became a required part > of the code. > > Locfit has a problematic license as discussed in its ITP/RFP #731599. > The about text says explicitly: > > the Locfit code, as distributed, should not, and can not, be used to > derive meaningful benchmarks, either for the speed or accuracy of > algorithms. > Anyone wishing to use Locfit in any kind of comparative benchmark > study must contact and obtain permission from the Author. > > Unfortunately several attempts to contact the Author for clarification > failed and I somehow gave up (I'd be more than happy if somebody would > keep on trying since there are other packages affected by the locfit > code). > > Since we are not able to upgrade r-bioc-edger in main I think we should > remove it from main to not confuse users. Usually local installation of > Bioconductor packages is quite simple so fetching a recent version is > not a real problem for the user. > > If somebody wants to package r-cran-locfit for non-free and r-bioc-edger > in contrib it has to pass the new queue anyway and this removal will not > harm. > > Any opinions? > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- Michael R. Crusoe Co-founder & Lead, Common Workflow Language project <http://www.commonwl.org/> https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-2961-9670 [email protected] +1 480 627 9108
