[pkg-bioc] Questions before breaking everything...

[Steffen Moeller]

Dear David,

I can build with anything, so I do not care so much, except that I feel the 
time for pbuilder builds to be considerably longer than for sudo. If you 
could perform a dynamic addition and removal of the packages while leaving 
the base system installed, buildd like, then this would help much, I think.

In an off-list discussion with Dirk, I was made aware of a new policy change 
that changes the upstream package version from R's x.y-z  to Debian's full 
version string x.y-z_0.r2d.1 rather than today's x.y.z_0.r2d.1. This has a 
dramatic impact on any of us who have  x.y.z_0.r2d.1 packages installed 
anywhere since these will not be automatically updated to  x.y-(z+1)_0.r2d.1. 
Actually, my problem in this respect arose when a student said she could no 
longer program with RMySQL because of the outdated DBI package .... and this 
was not on my Debian packaging machine :o)

I agree to your change, David. My main concern is on the versioning at the 
moment.... and I have kind of a love'n'hate relationship with our ugly 
duckling 'cran2deb.pl'....which actually does what it is supposed to do.

Cheers,

Steffen

On Thursday 21 June 2007 12:43:26 David Vernazobres wrote:
> Dear all,
> My next commit will break some back-old-school-stuff, but will bring some
> more power to the cran2deb.pl (in my soon realize) goal:
> building CRAN, Bioc, Omegahat in on shoot!
>
> So I am going to remove the Alreadyin{debian,alioth} code.
> I will wait 48h before committing, just to see what mailing list
> opinions.
>
> The point is the following: are we depreciating all building without
> pbuilder and equivalent. meaning all build which are done directly
> on the main system directly, with installing packages with sudo, ...
> (very ugly stuff from the beginning).
>
> I would like somehow to remove this part of code to be able to cleanup
> the cran2deb which is very ugly ! and getting uglier and uglier...
>
> Are you against saying that the R packages can only be build with
> pbuilder (or maybe also cowbuilder, in the future) ?
>
> david



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Dr. Steffen Möller
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