As discussed on debian-devel list[1] the large data are split from
metaphlan2 download into this package and also converted to FASTA format
which is smaller in size as well as human editable (see
debian/get-orig-source to learn what exactly is done to create the
source package).  The package contains a script metaphlan2-data-convert
which converts FASTA format data back to the original format (and does a
md5sum based check whether the conversion was successful).


[1] last mail in thread which is implemented finally
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00066.html

 -- Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>  Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:33:57 +0200
