On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 09:20:43PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 08:04:33PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > > A third issue which comes to mind is the request to use *defined* > > > versions of programms and not just a version which is by chance packaged > > > in any Debian release, for instance by using packages from > > > snapshots.debian.org. > > > > Can you elaborate on this? I am not sure what you mean here. It > > doesn't sound like it would take somebody 3+ months of full-time work to > > do this in any case, though. > > At Sanger Institute[1] which is one of the largest biological institutes > world wide are 3 (in words three) Debian developers working which might > be perhaps the largest DD density in institutes which do not have > software development in their main focus. At DebConf in Edinbourgh I > learned to know them and was talking to them about Debian Med and its > possible application in Sanger. The answer was that this is unwanted > for the scientists at Sanger which have the request to pin their system > on very specific software release combinations because only these are > guaranteed to reproduce exactly the same data they need to reproduce.
Easy: get the testing framework idea done and point them towards it for validation ;) Anyway, I think this is indeed difficult to scope for GSoC: if you find a solution, implementation is probably not that difficult, but letting a student shoot in the dark looks indeed unfair. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
