[pkg-bioc] cran2deb.pl error on gmodels

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 28 August 2007 at 22:10, Egon Willighagen wrote:
| Hi Hannes,
| 
| On 8/28/07, Johannes Ranke <jranke at uni-bremen.de> wrote:
| > * Egon Willighagen <egon.willighagen at gmail.com> [070828 16:50]:
| > > ************************************************
| > > Packaging #22 of 1093: 'gmodels' (using sudo)
| > > ************************************************
| >
| > If you wanted to build it with cran2deb.pl, you probably would need to
| > (build and install) gdata first. Last time I tried to build all CRAN
| > packages a long time ago, I added lots of such dependencies by hand.
| > Although I read on this list that this is more or less done now?
| 
| Yeah, same here. But it seems that the information is a bit out of
| data in places...

Code is frozen, CRAN changes,  Meta-data like this will always need updates.
 
| > Since Stefan pointed out to us that gmodels is already in Debian, you
| > probably need to add it (and gdata) to some array called
| > "alreadyinDebian" or similar, if I recall correctly.
| 
| Ah, indeed. That should be committed to Alioth... any objections if I do so?

Please do. And if you have suggested on how to improve the docs, or want to
provide a 'howto recipe', or or or ... you don't need to ask :)

Contributions welcome.  There are many subscribers 'lurking' on this list,
and it would be good if we re-gathered some momentum.

Dirk

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