Le Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 01:38:51PM +0100, Steffen Möller a écrit : > > The philosophy of Dirk and Charles is that the automated builds shall > substitute the manual builds. If there is something to be changed to > the build process, then this patch should become part of cran2deb > (which can be done) and/or be communicated back upstream. This is why > the Debian version information does not offer any "~" magic and does > not do the "0cranX" for new packages like the friendly Ubuntu does. > > We could overrule this, certainly, as Dirk keeps reminding us, this > is our repository. But we certainly need to think twice about if those > packages are not possibly too much evolving to be of any use in the > main distribution in the first place. For BioConductor's Debian packages > I would tend to think that a separate repository may be preferable.
Hi Steffen I read again the emails we exchanged on this subject, and I am not sure that not using the "~" magic is done on purpose. The problem is that once a repository started without, it is not easy to introduce it. Especially since we have a similar philosophy for the backports, I think that the unofficial packages we distribute should not take precedence over Debian's main archive. Charles (not the same as mentionned above) -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
