Hi Wookey,
On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 06:11:04PM +0100, Wookey wrote:
> On 2017-09-04 14:09 +0200, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
>
> > Well, technically it might be correct, but I doubt that there is a
> > working pipeline involving tophat, bowtie and friends on non-amd64
> > architectures.
>
> Well. I just built it, and installed it (along with bowtie). How do I
> test if it works? It seems that I need some kind of input file(s). I
> don't know anything about DNA sequencing.
Despite I'm working in the Debian Med team I also don't know much about
DNA sequencing. ;-) To enable testing our packages I've mentored GSoC
and outreachy students to write autopkgtests and we usually install a
file /usr/share/doc/<pkg>/README.test to explain how to run this test
also on the current machine. I tried to verify this and realised that
the test is currently broken. Please give us some time to
a) upgrade bowtie to the latest version (there is some issue[1])
b) fix the test
I'm just busy installing a pinebook[2] and I'll use bowtie as a first
test case on this machine (once I'll get my graphics back which I lost
after Jessie -> Stretch upgrade due to non-free / not-yet-packaged
driver)
> In general Debian tries to build software for all architectures where
> it works. This makes it easy for users to use it on whatever hardware
> they have. Upstreams may not understand that architectures other than
> x86 exist, but that's not a very good reason in itself for not
> building stuff. ppc64el has very fast hardware for example.
I think we understood this in principle and your effort is highly
respected.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2017/09/msg00014.html
[2] https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707
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