BWA Kit uses an outdated version of BWA

[rhpvorderman]

The newest version of the BWA kit archives posted here (https://sourceforge.net/projects/bio-bwa/files/bwakit/) still uses an older version of BWA (0.7.15).

Since I prefer to fix problems instead of complaining I tried to compile the latest version of K8 myself. This way I could figure out how to make a conda-forge K8 recipe. The idea was that I could add this to the bioconda recipe for BWA and as such package the BWAKIT in an accessible form.

Unfortunately I have been unsuccessfull at compiling K8. Apparently it does not work under Debian 10 or Ubuntu 16.04, at least not with the provided instructions. I would love to enable a k8 package on conda-forge to make packaging bwakit easier, but I need some more help with that.

In the meantime there is also a bioconda package for bwakit that uses the sourceforge tarballs. This also works fine. But like I said, the sourceforge tarball is a bit outdated.

What would be the best way to tackle this problem?