[pkg-bioc] BioConductor

[Steffen Moeller]

Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> 
>> Concerning specialised Debian repositories, I seem them more and more.
>> There is one for
>> the OpenMoko w/ Debian, for instance, which you cannot get around.
>> Once Dirk announces the
>> R one, this will become some standard thingy, too. Mentors we have.
>> Possibly others that I
>> am not aware of. Ubuntu has many smaller ones via their launchpad. In
>> the longer run,
>> Debian should come up with some way to support them officially.
> 
> I doubt that Debian will support anything outside Debian officially and
> IMHO it contradicts itself if you officially want to support something
> that is not full under your control.  I trapped myself in the licensing
> pitfall of a "GPL licensed R package" (r-cran-maptools) and Debian can
> not officially support code which was not officially verified regarding
> the license and this process is called NEW queue.
> 
> So if there would be a cran/bioc/whatever archive with R packages it
> might be a good chance to cherry pick from there and just go the long
> road through the new queue.

Point taken. s/officially/in a more user-friendly manner/.

Certainly there are difficulties or bits that have been missed, but mostly I see a wealth
of mostly-license-conform opportunities not being promoted.

volatile.debian.org could possibly be added to the prior mentioned list of non-standard
repositories that the community is not sufficiently aware of.

Best,

Steffen