[pkg-bioc] how to proceed?

[E.L. Willighagen]

Op Sunday 20 February 2005 21:20, schreef 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.

I've commited a few minor changes:

1. added --binarch and --mirror command line options
2. udunits is not in Debian (according to packages.d.o) so added to can't 
build list
3. also added a section to can't build for package problems on CRAN
  e.g gmp is mentioned in Descriptions/ but the tar.gz is missing on CRAN
  others that seem to suffer from similar issues are: boa, mnp

The last should be reported to CRAN, but I don't have time today/tomorrow to 
explore these things.

Dirk, packages with src/ seems to be nicely detected as non all... and 
compiling to binary code has not given problems on amd64 sofar...

There are a few things that I think should be done:
- split build/no-build, dependency, etc info into separate files
- changelog should indeed be cached in some way... so that we can keep track 
of what gets released
- there seems to be too many dots in the description in debian/control

Again, haven't had time to explore these in much detail... take all this as 
first experiences... btw, has anyone yet been able to run the cran2deb.pl 
fully successfully?

Egon

PS. will be offline tomorrow.