PyNAST for Debian
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Since version 1.1, PyNAST no longer exactly matches the output
of the origianl NAST program. Instead it focuses on getting better
alignments. Users who wish to exactly match the results of NAST should
download PyNAST 1.0.

The package is named 'pynast', not 'nast', since that is the name
of the python module.

A man page for /usr/bin/pynast is still missing. The package
was build as a dependency to qiime, so some external help as 
a contribtion to upstream and this Debian package by a rudimentary
man page would be appreciated.

PyNASt is making use of uclust

  http://www.drive5.com/uclust/downloads1_2_22q.html

which is non free and only distributed as binaries so we can not package this.
You might like to write a kind mail to the author to consider a free license.
For the moment you are on your own to install the binary file.  All tests that
were requiring uclust were stripped from PyNAST's unit tests.

 -- Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>  Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:52:50 +0200
