#1120150 hmmer: Ship easel miniapps instead of easel source code.

Package:
src:hmmer
Source:
src:hmmer
Submitter:
Charles Plessy
Date:
2026-05-01 13:39:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1120150#5
Date:
2025-11-06 03:09:31 UTC
From:
To:
Hi all,

HMMER ships the Easel library in its released tarball as it compiles on it.  In
addition, this library has a collection of small command-line tools called
miniapps, which can be used for manipulating files typically used or produced
by HMMER.

AI tools are good at digging in old documentations or discussion forums and
suggest the use of old tools, which is how I got aware of the miniapps…

Currently our hmmer-examples packages ships the source code of Easel; I do not
know why.

I propose that the hmmer package starts to ship the miniapps; this can be done
with the following patch.
#1120150#10
Date:
2026-05-01 13:37:45 UTC
From:
To:
Hey Charles,

They are used by the hmmer autopkgtests, specifically https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/hmmer/-/blob/6a51eb504f141009858f497827d171fee11cd257/debian/tests/run-unit-test#L19

Sure, go for it. Please add the extra binaries.

Cheers!