[pkg-bioc] cran2deb.pl patch

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 24 February 2007 at 02:31, David Vernazobres wrote:
| Hi Dirk,
| 
| On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 07:04:00PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote :
| > 
| > Hi David,
| > 
| > On 22 February 2007 at 15:34, David Vernazobres wrote:
| > | Dear all, 
| > | I submit an other patch :
| > | The first hunk :
| > |  * I do not find any r-cran-limma and any r-cran-pamr
| > |    package in debian, as written in the script. 
| > 
| > Some things do move between archives, and the need to update this 'meta
| > information' manually in the script is one of the reasons why I think the
| > script is only a (working but still simple) hack.  Some sort of
| > web-accessible DB would be better...
| > 
| Hum, for this point : 
| * As long as, the new bioc-packages do not hit the official debian
| repository I think, that I could come with a solution/proposal of solution.
| I just need a bit more of testing, to check it out. Is someone actually 
| working on this part ?   

Andrew was last summer/fall as part of his unofficial quasi-Summer of Code
project. 
 
| * When the bioc-cran-pkg will hit the official debian repository,

Colour me unconvinced that they will. I can guestimate how time I am spending
on a fixed and comparitively small set of CRAN packages in Debian, and I have
no time to spare.  If these ever got included, we needed to have a dedicated
team of DDs to look after them -- much like the pkg-perl group, say. 

We are far from that.

| I am not sure, how to differentiate between autogenerated packages and
| the others older packages ? or will all the autopackaging package every
| bioc-cran-omegahat ?

We do leave traces in the autogenerated files, incl debian/control so you can 
easily check for 
  Maintainer: CRAN/BioC packagers <pkg-bioc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>

We could possibly add another X-$foo field on debian/control though that
probably suggests a discussion on debian-devel first. Would help if someone
could do some research on how the other large groups do that. 
 
Dirk

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