[EMBOSS] possibility of packages for Debian Etch.

[Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio]

2007/10/10, Charles Plessy <charles-listes-emboss at plessy.org>:
>
> Because Debian Etch is the stable version, it does not receive new
> packages unless they fix security issues or grave bugs. The emboss
> package for Debian will never be part of Etch nor its updates.
>

Really?
I didn't know emboss had grave bugs.

Are you saying they can't be fixed?
I can't find many references to bugs in emboss, but maybe you are
referring to bugs like this:
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427439 ?


> However, some Debian developpers provides a separate repository in which
> only official developers upload recent packages recompiled for Etch. The
> site is called backports.org.
>
> If you or another reader is interested, we can prepare such a backport
> for Etch.

Thank you very much: I think many people are interested, expecially
from the Ubuntu users community.
Emboss is seen as a educational package to learn bioinformatics: so,
it would be better if people can install it easily by themselves,
instead of asking to a system manager.
 Maybe you can just add the link to debian backports in the help page.




> Have a nice day,
>

and to you, too!

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