Re: tophat: embedded samtools copy
Hi Alex,
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 02:49:15PM +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> >Dear Maintainer,
> >
> >Tophat 2.0.13 started to include a convience copy of samtools
> 0.1.18, >I believe
> >this is technically a violation of Debian policy. Though I'm not
> sure >how hard
> >it would be properly fix the issue.
> >
> >Diane Trout
>
>
> Hi Diane,
>
> Please see this thread for more details:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2014/10/msg00004.html
>
> Until we have a solution we need to ship samtools 0.1.18 with tophat.
Is there some ongoing discussion with upstream (since otherwise I do not
see any solution). Despite the Debian perspective I think from a
scientific perspective we should also avoid running different versions
of the same algorithm on our data (when using different tools for
comparison for instance).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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