[pkg-bioc] Re: Genetics Program

[Steffen Moeller]

> We would need to make it __very clear__ that this is a private archive with
> no claims to Debianness whatsoever.
This is fine. 

> And even that is still very murky if the files come from a .debian.org
> server. People will get confused.  So I think this needs a little more
> thought and a clearer definition of what standards if any we are shooting
> for.  What is you goal?  Pass 'R CMD check' (a given) but also pass
> lintian?
Lintian should not complain about very hazardous conflicts with Debian policy. 
The built packages however should reflect what you, Dirk, sketched as a 
Debian policy for R.

> | and more than a single person should have access to it. The latter is the
> | reason I do not set it up from here.
> |
> | > In a nutshell, if you want to do that, why not if you find a sponsor
> | > etc pp.
> |
> | I sketched the individual packaging of BioC + CRAN packages which I
> | forsee to lead us towards a preparation of packages for an inclusion with
> | Debian. No sponsor would be involved, with access to the external
> | repository granted. I will not ask anybody else but you for sponsoring,
> | your NO (or "not yet")
>
> What you mean "for sponsoring" ?  I cannot really sponsor any more packages
> and be responsive to my packages as well as those. I have to draw a line
> somewhere, and I am afraid I have to draw it at "I cannot build 120 BioC
> packages for you". Or even 40, to take a number for some subset.
This is fine since for an alioth repository there is no sponsor required. I 
interpreted the para of yours "In a nutshell, if you want to do that, why not 
if you find a sponsor etc pp" as "do what you want if you find a sponsor" but 
do not see the need for a sponsor in the first place - at least not for now.

> | means NO (or "not yet") - at least for me - and this will not change when
> | I eventually become a DD.
>
> In general, I am not entirely clear I understand what you wrote in this
> large paragraph. Could you try again in different wording, and I get a
> shower and some coffee ? (just did a morning run so may lack blood near the
> brain ...)
Different wording: The BioConductor folks have shown that an automated 
compilation (with the getBioC.R script) can produce something useful and we 
should strive for something useful in a completely automated fashion for 
systems running Debian, too. If we cannot get this automated building 
Debian-clean then it should stay outside of the main Debian distribution. 

> | Rafael, if you read this mail to this end and Dirk agrees to this plan,
> | please ask the Alioth maintainers for the possibility of an upload.

> Hm, you're an alioth member so you can already write, create dirs, build an
> apt-getable structure as you like.  You don't Rafael for that -- but he has
> of course the most experience in that given all his excellent Octave work.
I'd consider it unlucky to impose the load without asking.

> Dirk, glad to see all this bioc/cran momentum !!
Here too.

Steffen