Dear Bioperl developpers, In the Debian Project, we distribute packages for Bioperl and need to express their dependancy to other Perl modules with "Depends", "Recommends" and "Suggests" levels. For the moment, everything that is listed in the "recommends" hash of Build.PL is "Recommended" by our Debian package. This means that they will be installed by default when installing Bioperl, but that users can force their removal if needed.
Being "Recommended" also means in Debian that if the recommended module is not available, then the Debian bioperl package will not reach our internal quality criteria for being part of our stable release. Therefore I would like to know if you think that some of the modules recommeded by Bioperl through the "recommends" hash of Build.PL are less important than others, i.e. that we can just "Suggest" them in our dependancy system. "Suggested" packages are not installed by default. The complete definition of the meaning of "Depends", "Recommends" and "Suggests" for Debian packages can be found in the section 7.2 of the Debian policy: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html Debian distributes versions 1.4 and 1.5.2 of Bioperl, but considers using 1.5.2 in its next stable release. We welcome your comments on this as well. The Debian package for Bioperl 1.4: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/bioperl and for Bioperl 1.5.2: http://packages.debian.org/sid/bioperl (A copy of this email has been sent to the mailing list of the Debian-Med project). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org WakÅ, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
