[pkg-bioc] CVS %p

[Steffen Moeller]

Hi,

On Friday 20 April 2007 14:12:16 you wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:22:33PM +0200, Johannes Ranke wrote:

> > Nice papar! I didn't know we arrived at 1700 packages autobuilt. What I
>
> Yes, David and Steffen did a *ton* of work this as astute readers of
> the cvs list will know :)
>
> > don't understand however, is how the debian autobuilders for 11
> > architectures will/would come into play. I think maintaining 1700
> > packages in Debian would be difficult, even given the quality checks
> > that e.g. CRAN R packages went through.
>
> We don't know either. I think the feeling is that that many packages
> are not maintainable in the same way, so we probably end up offering
> them somewhere else somehow. But first more/better automation...

Johannes has directly spotted one of the weaker points of our (accepted) 
submission as it mixes two bits:

a) Debian is generally good for the provisioning of runtime environments since 
the platform does not matter - the packages are available on them all
b) We can seamlessly redo our automated builds on arbitrary platforms and 
achieve the same cross-platformness even when not using the Debian 
infrastructure directly.

As Dirk pointed out, we are opting for b) with some bits in a).

Cheers,

Steffen



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