[pkg-bioc] how to proceed?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 February 2005 at 00:03, E.L. Willighagen wrote:
| 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:

You are the man!  Excellent.

| 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

My bad. I have a copy here somewhere for Quantian. Shall I copy it into
Alioth?  Email it?

NCAR has silly copyrights. We could exclude it for that reason. Dunno.

| 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

Way have been a temporary mirror glitch. I follow the page (in its
time-sorted display):
	http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/?M=D
and all of these were recently updates.

If they don't show up, maybe time to switch CRAN mirrors and tell
cran@r-project.org?  

| 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...

Awesome. And nice to detect my hardcoded i386 -- there will be more shortcuts
like that. We just need to test, test, test.

| There are a few things that I think should be done:
| - split build/no-build, dependency, etc info into separate files

I'm lost. What do you mean?  The config into at the top? In that case Yes!!
I was even thinking about a SQLite database (Perl and R can easily talk to SQLite).

| - 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?

I'm lost again -- how much did you run it?  It sounds like you did a full
load. Is that true?  Did it all pass, i.e. the script finished?

| 
| Egon
| 
| PS. will be offline tomorrow.

No problem.

Thanks again for all this.

Dirk

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