Le Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 08:24:23AM -0700, Afif Elghraoui a écrit : > > I've had a couple packages that indicate the availability of data > outside of the source distribution that can be used to try out the > software (and make sure that it actually runs). I didn't think it was a > good idea to bundle the data in with the actual package since it doesn't > change between releases and would take up too much space on the archive > if it was bundled with every upstream tarball. > > For example, at <http://canu.readthedocs.io/en/stable/quick-start.html>, > there are a few reduced datasets that can be used to run assemblies for > PacBio and Nanopore sequencing data. Those files can also be used for > tests of the sprai package, and possibly also for other long-read genome > assemblers. There's also the option of packaging the Assemblathon data > for this purpose, or using simulators to generate datasets for testing. > > Does anyone have suggestions or thoughts on this?
Hi Afif, yes, this is an excellent idea. Discussions about data packages spark from time to time (see https://wiki.debian.org/DataPackages for instance), and it would be exciting to see this happening in one way or the other ! Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
