[pkg-bioc] Re: Genetics Program

[Frederic Lehobey]

Hi,

On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 03:54:55PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> [2005-12-10 08:16]:
> 
> > Undoubtedly many of the CRAN/BioC packages would build and work just fine.
> > But the problem is that a fair number require hand-holding to, say, properly
> > translate CRAN dependencies into Debian dependencies, make sure those are all
> > present and installable, do some extra work to prevent building (for the
> > Windows only packages), do follow-up work (CIGwithR wants interaction with
> > webserver, gnomeGui ships as a package but is "only" a glade file that gets
> > installed somewhere else, RScaLAPACK needs a mess of library arrangements
> > (or, rather, an upstream autoconf patch) etc pp.  It should *really* work,
> > not *just work*.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > But I think we need to work a few more details out before we charge ahead. I
> > may be in the minority here and don't mean to block or veto this, but who
> > exactly would do the work?  You have your hands-full with Octave, Steffen
> > seems busy with his dozen plus packages, I have Quantian plus a few dozen
> > packages --- so who is going to run this? It will take one or two hours of
> > daily hand-holding.
> 
> Is it really that amount of *_daily_* hand-holding, or is it just a lot
> of work to set up things and then it runs almost automatically?
> 
> At any rate, I am not willing to spend time *_daily_* on this project. I
> think we need a volunteer here, perhaps someone willing to become a
> Debian developer who is not yet maintaining other packages.

Well, I do not have that much time *daily* available either but I am
willing to take my fair share of it.

I have little experience in Debian packaging (not maintainer of any)
and none in Debian R packaging (my contribution to R so far has been
being involved in the French translation team) but I have played a bit
with dak, pbuilder and backports.

What would you suggest as a starting point?  (adopting some
packages?).  My work method would be documenting as much as possible
the packaging rules and tips on wiki.debian.org (or any other relevant
place if there is a better).

Best regards,
Frederic
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