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Review: mcl 1:22-282+ds-5

Package Information

DescriptionMarkov Cluster algorithm

The MCL package is an implementation of the MCL algorithm, and offers utilities for manipulating sparse matrices (the essential data structure in the MCL algorithm) and conducting cluster experiments.

MCL is currently being used in sciences like biology (protein family detection, genomics), computer science (node clustering in Peer-to-Peer networks), and linguistics (text analysis).

MaintainerDebian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed ByAndreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Sponsortille@debian.org
Distributionunstable
Architectureany all
VCSgit: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/mcl.git (browse)
Closes#1091257
Popcon Installs558
Binary NEWYes (new binary packages of a source already in sid)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mcl
Uploaded1 month, 15 days ago

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.changes◂
Distributionunstable
DateWed, 23 Sep 2026 10:43:30 +0200
Sourcemcl
Version1:22-282+ds-5
Changed-ByAndreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
Architecturesource amd64 all
Changelog◂
mcl (1:22-282+ds-5) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Re-enable OCaml bindings for the current MCL version and ship them in
     the new binary package libmcl-ocaml-dev.
   * Build the bindings without OASIS
   * Install the OCaml findlib package into the versioned multiarch OCaml
     stdlib directory (@OCamlStdlibDir@) instead of the hardcoded
     /usr/lib/ocaml
   * d/watch: version=5
   * d/upstream/metadata: Take over valid citation from d/copyright into
     machine readable format
   * d/copyright: rcl/* is only GPL-3
   * Add d/lrc.config
   * i386 is explicitly excluded by Build-Depends: architecture-is-64-bit
     Closes: #1091257
   * Standards-Version: 4.7.4 (routine-update)
   * Reflow Uploaders field (cme)
   * Remove Priority field (cme)
   * Drop 'Rules-Requires-Root: no' from d/control (routine-update)
   * Rely on pre-initialized dpkg-architecture variables.
   * Reformat the Last-Update date as ISO YYYY-MM-DD.
   * Add RFP bugs in 20011012-1.
   * debputy lint --auto-fix (routine-update)
.dsc◂
Sectionocaml
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listlibmcl-ocaml-dev deb ocaml optional arch=any
mcl deb math optional arch=any
mcl-doc deb doc optional arch=all
debian/copyright◂
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Source: http://micans.org/mcl/src/
Files-Excluded: */*.1
                */doc/*.ps
                */*.html
                */Makefile.in
Upstream-Name: mcl

Files: *
Copyright: © 1999-2014 Stijn van Dongen <stijn@micans.org>
License: GPL-3+

Files: rcl/*
Copyright: © 202 Stijn van Dongen <stijn@micans.org>
License: GPL-3
 On Debian systems you can find the full text of the GNU General Public
 License version 3 at /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.

Files: debian/*
Copyright: © 2001-2007 Joost van Baal <joostvb@debian.org>,
           © 2007-2013 Philipp Benner <philipp@debian.org>,
           © 2014-2017 Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
License: GPL-3+

Files: debian/mcl_14-137_scripts/mcxdeblast
Copyright: © 2002-2009 Stijn van Dongen,
           © 2004 Jason Stajich
License: GPL-3+

License: GPL-3+
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 .
 On Debian systems you can find the full text of the GNU General Public
 License version 3 at /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.

Review Information

accepted — allocated to awm 1 month, 14 days ago, started 1 month, 14 days ago, completed 1 month, 14 days ago.

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