[packaging] hail anaconda recipe is outdated

[iris-garden]

What happened?

a user attempted to run conda install bioconda::hail or some variation of that, and it looks like the hail package on anaconda.org has a dependency on openjdk 8.*, which prevents users from using openjdk 11.* with it, and is also a pretty old version from over a year ago. the recipe for the hail package on anaconda.org should be updated to have accurate dependencies and use the current version of hail, or we should ask that it be removed if we recommend only installing hail through pip.

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@iris-garden

#8423
bioconda/bioconda-recipes#37222

It's horrendously out of date. I am supremely frustrated with the bioconda people. It's actively harmful to this project and to science to have a unmaintained package without any indication of that.

[rajwanir]

As a user, I have been trying to test the hail to see if this would be useful for my application. Trying to setup initially and running into various issues. The pip install only details the python package requirements. There are additional dependencies as described here: https://hail.is/docs/0.2/install/linux.html.

Having an upto conda environment, certainly has it's merits but I can see it didn't work out to have upto date bioconda recipes. In addition to pip, would it be feasible to have a container or docker so a user can straight test the package initially? Just a suggesstion, I know it could up a lot of work as well to maintain that as well.

Thanks for the great package.