[pkg-bioc] Re: Genetics Program

[Steffen Moeller]

Am Dienstag 13 Dezember 2005 14:36 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> | 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.
>
> That document is getting pretty close to being irrelevant as it is two
> years old. Rewriting / updating it may be a good first step towards
> specifying what we want to accomplish here though.

Time is floating.

[...]
> Given that we are talking about hundreds of packages, I think it pays to
> think in terms of infrastructure.  Now, I could agree that we may just want
> to start on a subset of 20-40 BioC packages to get things rolling, get some
> sort-of-automated builds for i386 and amd64 etc.  But we need to keep the
> bigger picture in mind too.

The mainstream bits of BioC are aout 20-40 packages, this is just fine.

Let's go, then. Rafael? The resources required will be considerably lower, too 
~ 1 GB I'd say from memory.

Steffen