Notes from the 2017 Debian Med Sprint in Bucharest

Progress on meeting goals

• Complete dependencies for Galaxy
  • reiterating on borked python-bx packaging - now in New Queue
• Package Toil resource distributor for CWL workflows

  • uploaded dependency https://github.com/BD2KGenomics/bd2k-python-lib as python-bd2k - now in New Queue

  • Working on non-trivial dependency 'cgcluster', ITP is out
  • ITP for Toil ist out

• Updating cwltool & schema-salad: done. Sascha is adding cwl-runner via update-alternatives

  • uploaded
• packaging bcbio: MRC working on it and pybedtools dependency
• snpeff: looked at dependencies needed to package it

  • apfloat => source at http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apfloat/apfloat/1.6.3/

  • charts4j => from https://code.google.com/archive/p/charts4j/, code at https://github.com/julienchastang/charts4j

  • akka-actor => source at http://dl.bintray.com/typesafe/maven-releases/com/typesafe/akka/akka-actor/2.0.1/

  • trove4j => in debian (libtrove-java) freemarker in Debian

  • distlib => unknown source , only bin jar on maven, but no reference in code...

  • samtools => v1.107, too old, code not compatible with htsjdk...

  • log4j in Debian
  • Main issue seems to be samtoosl related with imports like import net.sf.samtools.SAMFileReader

  • Packaging lobSTR workflow: Bogdan & Michael got the workflow to run again https://github.com/common-workflow-language/workflows/pull/126#issuecomment-272632458

Project ideas

List of demands for development discussed/identified during the meeting

• bash autocomplete from CWL tool descriptions
• manual page generation from CWL tool descriptions

• using acd2cwl to generate CWL descriptions for the EMBOSS tools