[pkg-bioc] how to proceed?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 20 February 2005 at 21:57, Steffen Moeller wrote:
| alioth is fine - 
| http://cvs.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=pkg-bioc
| there was a colon at the end - maybe that was the culprit of your 
| problem. It would be great if you could submit you changes back there 
| for our internal communication.

Seconded.

| If you start with a mirror of CRAN then this is fine. However, I would 
| much prefer if we could strive towards a merger of that automated script 
| with the normal Debian build process, much like what a buildd would do. 

These are fully orthogonal as I see it. Our code will simply create (lots of)
packages which can the be built in variety of ways -- among a buildd way be
the preferable. But as not everybody has one set up, let's not enfore that
right from the start it increases the barrier to entry yet again.

| Dependencies IMHO should be matched by the Debian apt-get functionality 
| whenever possible. If this is not possible, then the package missing 

Yes -- but you need to tell apt-get about them first so that apt-get knows
what to fetch. For that, you need to parse the R package information in the
sources.  

Dirk

| should be built first. This would avoid to maintain a full mirror of CRAN.
| 
| Many greetings, please report on you success/remaining problem with CVS 
| on alioth.
| 
| Steffen

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