[pkg-bioc] CVS %p

[Johannes Ranke]

* Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> [070420 16:30]:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:34:13PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> > 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) 

Congratulations!

> > 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.
> 
> Can we?  Or don't we have explicit/implicit dependencies of
> "Debianness" in terms of 
> 
>   a) package availability, 
>   
>   b) naming (!!) [ almost every distro calls, say, Postgres libs
>      something else ]
>      
>   c) infrastructure (pbuilder, ...)
> 
> > As Dirk pointed out, we are opting for b) with some bits in a).
> 
> Maybe we we are able to 'b-1)': redo on "arbitrary hardware provided
> it runs Debian testing"  :)

Yep, b-1) is more exact...

> 
> As Henry Ford said: You can have the car in any color provided it is
> black.

Did anyone try autobuilding on Dapper Drake yet? It would likely be a
piece of cake to make the stuff work for Ubuntu after pkg-bioc is
thoroughly tested...

Just pondering,

Johannes