[EMBOSS] Is a backport of emboss 5.0 to debian etch avalable?

[Ryan Golhar]

We have RPMs available for EMBOSS.  If you know how to construct deb 
package, perhaps you can convert them...I've never tried myself.


Gates, Michael (NIH/NINDS) [F] wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I noticed in October there was a discussion of adding Emboss to backports for debian etch. Searching for emboss there did not yield any results. Has this in fact happened? If not, to whom can I plead to for it to happen?  Is there -somewhere- a binary of emboss packaged the "debian way" for etch?
> 
> Sadly "upgrading" to lenny/testing (where EMBOSS does exist) instead caused problems with R/Cran (or at least R interacting with Tcl/Tk). And for those of us whose bioinformatics consists of mainly of R and Emboss, this is .... a painful state of affairs. Alas.
> 
> Or do I hear the gentle calls of "./configure make make install" in my near future? 
> 
> Michael Gates
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