[Bringing Praveen into the loop who maintains fasttrack] Hi Steffen,
On Tue, 27 Jul, 2021, 3:32 pm Steffen Möller, <steffen_moel...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hello, > > fastx-toolkit https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/fastx-toolkit ran into a > bug in one of its dependencies and was removed for that reason. > ArrayExpressHTS still depends on fasta_formatter from that library. > > In the meantime, Pierre has fixed that bug on that dependency of > fastx-toolkit, so I think this could go back in, right? > Sure, it could be reintroduced. If we are concerned about taking responsibility for fastx-toolkit since > upstream officially declared it as unsupported, then maybe this would be > something for https://fasttrack.debian.net/ No, that's likely not the case for fasttrack. fasttrack is for packages that will never make it to testing. If it's the case for fastx-toolkit, then probably we go the fasttrack way and its reverse dependencies > like ArrayExpressHTS with it, then? Not needed for reverse dependencies, if we push those to ofiicial bullseye-backports But since complicates everything, I > would like not go that route. > Right. @Praveen, do you think it qualifies for being in fasttrack? Nilesh >
