Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cran2deb: 1700+ new Debian / R packages

[Steffen Moeller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

Salut,

Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:47:23AM +0200, Steffen Moeller a écrit :
>> from the Debian-med perspective I personally am more interested to learn about the
>> possibility to get BioConductor in. If I recall correctly, the major challenge is to get
>> the machine for the redistribution of the packages, right?
> 
> By the way, I just realised that the base (biobase) BioConductor package can be
> built without problem with /usr/share/R/debian/r-cran.mk. How about following
> the same logic as for CRAN and package the most frequently used components in
> our main archive?

this would sound just right to me. A problem might be a higher incompatibility of package
versions between bioconductor releases. So we would need to synchronise ourselves
strongly, which is exactly what the automated effort should perform for us. But this might
but be of concern for the majority of the moer central classical BioC packages, indeed.

I personally think that we should rather investigate, to what degree we could perform the
automation of BioC packages.

Many greetings

Steffen