[pkg-bioc] Re: My first steps with cran2deb.pl

[Frederic Lehobey]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 09:09:40PM +0100, "Steffen Möller" wrote:

> Dirk has already answered the questions from how I read it. I'll just add a
> few comments when I feel less redundant. Should you think that I could
> possibly help online with anything, contact me per email or feel free to
> skype me as steffen_moeller.

Much thanks for your offer.  My prefered way would be using the wiki
page as it leaves documentation available for everybody.  The
DebianCRAN page in its previous state has been much valuable to me.

> > | 4/ No progress so far with BIOC.  I have failed to find anything in
> > | the http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/bioc/devel/src/contrib/html/
> > | directory stated by http://wiki.debian.org/DebianBIOC .  I have not
> > | found any proper newer location.
> They have version numbers for their releases in the path now.
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/bioc/1.8/src/contrib/
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/bioc/1.8/html/
> but I have not yet checked if the access permissions allow to get anything
> from there,
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/bioc/1.8/
> seems a good start point.

Thanks.  I will try it later.

> As a sidenote, BioC has introduced "Views" on their packages. This might be
> of interest for the Debian Tags to which my contribution is long overdue,
> sigh. See "bridge" as an example with many tags:
> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/bioc/1.8/html/bridge.html

Sounds interesting.  Something to add to the script?

> Did you mention the metadata packages on the Wiki or was it me?

No, I have not.  So it shall be you.  :-)

> I have built several Metadata packages manually about a year ago now, I
> think. I should go for their inclusion with the script. People were booking
> most of my time in January and February already, it might become March until
> I'll find time for this, sadly.

I do not see clearly what it is.

Best regards,
Frederic