Hi Martin,
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:59:35AM -0700, Martin Morgan wrote:
> On 10/12/2013 02:59 AM, Maintainer wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >the Debian Med team tries to package several parts of BioConductor.
> >When trying to upload GenomicRanges our ftpmaster criticised that the
> >source contains some precomputed results inside the documentation which
> >is in conflict with our policy which requires the source for all binary
> >data. There could be different solutions for this:
> >
> > 1. If you consider the files
> > GenomicRanges/inst/doc/precomputed_results/*.rda
> > as not very important for the user documentation and it might be
> > sufficient to download the files from somewhere else.
> >
> > 2. Provide a recipe to reprodce the precomputed results we could
> > use in the package building process to recreate the data.
> >
> >May be there are other solutions but these come to my mind for the
> >moment.
> >
> >Any hint what we should do?
>
> Andreas -- you've brought this topic up before; you've provided guidance at
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/GNU_R
Sure, I know and I really hoped that this means would be convincible
enough to our ftpmasters - but unfortunately it did not (see link to
ftpmaster decision on this page). We kept on dicussing the issue
with ftpmaster and they just came up with their stronger than hoped
requirement.
> Basically, these are serialized R objects, so their content is
> transparent to users in the same way that a binary image is visible
> (and useful) to a user.
I'll try uploading with the other explanation given by Hervé Pagès and
hope this will pass.
Sorry for bothering you about this and thanks for your patience
Andreas.
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