cran2deb package Re: Packaging r-bioc-simpleaffy

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

Hello,

On 03/01/2011 12:26 AM, Tony Travis wrote:
> On 28/02/11 22:19, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> [...]
>> Does it make sense to recalculate a Bioconductor deb repository over
>> and over instead of just mirroring the result of one single cran2deb
>> run which would be (re)done in a reasonable frequence?
>
> That's not really what I had in mind - I was thinking more about the
> detailed instructions for installing "cran2deb" that Charles
> mentioned. It seemed like something that would be more suitable to
> encapsulate in a deb package, rather than in a READ_ME for manual
> installation.
>
> Admittedly, few people would install a "cran2deb" package. However, me
> and Steffan have both installed "cran2deb" manually from Dirk's SVN. I
> was, of course, tempted to create a simple binary package in
> completely the wrong way but, so far, I've resisted ;-)

Dirk and Charles were not in favour of having a Debian package for
cran2deb in the past. They may have changed their opinion by now. There
is a bit of a hen-and-egg problem with r-cran-digest, which is also
created by Dirk (as upstream) but not in our main distribution.

I had added the "debian" directory to the cran2deb source tree. It works
for me - but still leaves some considerable bits for a human soul to 
fiddle here and there.  The build and run time dependencies should all
be fine.

I suggest to just give it some more time and collect more experiences.

Best,

Steffen