Hi, >>>> Description : tool to find approximate mapping positions between long >>>> sequences >>> >>> Sounds misleading to me. By looking at the package name and short >>> description, I expected some tool for GIS, not biology.
[…] >> >> What would you think about changing the short description to explicitly >> mention biological sequences. How about ’tool for efficient approximate >> mapping of long biosequences such as DNA reads’. > > Maybe "tool for efficient approximate mapping of long biosequences" or > "tool for efficient approximate mapping of long biosequences like DNA reads” Agreed. I just pushed a new, more clear description [1] >> One could also think of renaming the package to ‘minimap-bio’ or the like as >> a lat resort, but I would rather avoid that. > > I would stick to upstream name as long as possible. Once a while ago I > made the mistake of deviating from upstream just for cosmetic reasons > and it always sucked. I can imagine. Best regards and thanks for your input, Sascha [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-med-commit/2016-January/041832.html
