[pkg-bioc] cran2deb.pl patch

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 24 February 2007 at 13:23, Steffen Moeller wrote:
| Well, there is the sqlite db which would have to 
| * store the assignment of the pacakges
| * be distributed between the build efforts of CRAN and BioC
| but we have not addressed using it for this purpose yet in the first place.

Yep. And a idea would be to have the db dump its schema and content at the
end, which we can then stick into the CVS and share easily.  So we'd built up
the db at the beginning, do some work and then check in the updated db status.

| Hm. Go ahead. I for my part am rather interested in the moment to get the 
| dependencies recognised better to allow also the removal of packages from the 
| system.

IMHO this really calls for pbuilder.  But we can start with simpler test cases.

| My personal vision is that the autogenerated packages become that 
| sophisticated, that these are not distinguishable from the manually 
| maintained ones. A package maintainer would then basically verify and submit 
| the autobuilt packages.

Seconded as far as the vision goes, and I like to reiterated that we should
not shoot lower -- ie upload crappy packages into Debian.

Dirk

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