[pkg-bioc] how to proceed?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 8 February 2005 at 17:29, Steffen Moeller wrote:
| Hello,
| 
| I have extended the number of bioconductor packages that I did Debian 
| packages for.
| 
| deb http://bioinformatics.pzr.uni-rostock.de/~moeller/debian/ ./
| 
| Since these apparently work, at least the route towards affylmGUI, I 
| thought it would be nice if others joined in and gave feedback on their 
| particular package of interest.

I'll excuse myself as I have neither time, nor a clue in Biology ...

| I tried to make them lintian-clean. This was not always possible since 
| images are not allowed in /usr/lib and Dirk's magic rules do not 
| ca(te)r(e) for this separation towards /usr/share - and should not IMHO 
| in order to keep things simple(r).

Correct. That is a half-sore spot as all (!!) R packages violate the FHS by
putting everything under /usr/lib/R -- parts should be in /usr/share/R.  

I sure some Debian redneck will flame us for that one day, but til then, we
will keep it simple.

Dirk

| The packages should be substituted by whatever we generate with the 
| automated scripts, though as Dirk already said, we need to make sure we 
| have the right dependencies and superior descriptions for everything. So 
| please let your comments fly in. Also tell me if a package of particular 
| importance for you is missing in the repository.
| 
| I suggest to create the home page for the alioth project of ours with 
| the URLs of all the packages we have done.
| 
| Question: Is limma CRAN or Bioconductor? I put it to CRAN.
| 
| Cheers,
| 
| Steffen
| 
| 

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