Hi Andreas, On 19.10.17 18:09, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I started to check the list of external packages of possibly interesting > packages and stumbled upon blixem which is part of seqtools[1]. The > source also contains dotter and belvu and seems to be actively > maintained. However, the packages acedb-other-belvu and > acedb-other-dotter from source acedb (which is orphaned upstream) > contain the same executable names and it seems the programs are doing > the same. My packaging attempt on seqtools[2] went quite smoothly but > surely needs some polishing - most probably also dynamic linking against > a common library. Before I'll spent additional time cycles I'd like to > know your opinion whether we should simply replace the orphaned belvu > and dotter versions from the acedb package or if not how we should > proceed otherwise. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > [1] http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/seqtools > [2] https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/seqtools.git
Looks good to me. How about proposing that as a MoM project? I'd volunteer as a mentor. Steffen