Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-08-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Charles, Thank you for your nice reply. On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 03:00:25AM +0530, Faheem Mitha a écrit : r-cran-scales is now in Debian, but r-cran-ggplot2 has not yet been updated. I see that r-cran-scales is not installable, because it depends

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-08-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 03:00:25AM +0530, Faheem Mitha a écrit : > > r-cran-scales is now in Debian, but r-cran-ggplot2 has not yet been > updated. I see that r-cran-scales is not installable, because it > depends on r-cran-munsell, which is not in Debian, at least not > currently on my mirror for

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-08-08 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Andreas, Thank you for the friendly message. I've now put the project in question on Bitbucket at the following URL: https://bitbucket.org/faheem/corrmodel. This is still unfinished work, but the package should at least build. Any comments, and particularly those on packaging, are appreciat

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 10:34:37PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:41:59PM +, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > I'm a little puzzled why ggplot2 is being packaged by Debian > > Med. It is a general purpose R graphing package. > What I currently can see from the status

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-31 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Faheem, On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:41:59PM +, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > > The mailing list archive shows that in 2008 you had contributed to the a > > plink related thread - so you might know the Debian Med project. In > > case you are unsure you might probably want to have a look at the l

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-31 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Andreas, Thank you for your kind message, and for your interest. On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:06:38 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Faheem, > > I'm really happy that I asked back! ;-) > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:03:19AM +, Faheem Mitha wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:01:43 +0200, Andreas T

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-30 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Faheem, I'm really happy that I asked back! ;-) On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:03:19AM +, Faheem Mitha wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:01:43 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hi Faheem, > > > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 04:24:21PM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > >> I've got Debian packaging for a pi

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Faheem Mitha wrote: > We describe and implement a method to predict new members of a DNA > sequence motif family using Bayesian model selection. This method > assumes a specific correlation structure on the set of sequences. We > apply our method to test t

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:01:43 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Faheem, > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 04:24:21PM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: >> I've got Debian packaging for a piece of software I've written. This >> software probably is too specialized to be part of Debian. > > Could you please tell us

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-30 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Faheem, On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 04:24:21PM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > I've got Debian packaging for a piece of software I've written. This > software probably is too specialized to be part of Debian. Could you please tell us what specialized software you have written. You might simply like t

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:22:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Faheem Mitha writes: > >> Currently the Debian packaging is part of the same repository as the >> software, in the subdirectory debian/. I'm wondering if I should put it >> in a separate repository. Also, currently the package is being bui

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Faheem Mitha writes: > Currently the Debian packaging is part of the same repository as the > software, in the subdirectory debian/. I'm wondering if I should put it > in a separate repository. Also, currently the package is being built as > a Debian native package, which isn't really appropriate

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:47:16 +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le 29/07/2013 12:54, Faheem Mitha a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> I've got Debian packaging for a piece of software I've written. This >> software probably is too specialized to be part of Debian. In any case, >> for now I have no plans to

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-29 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 29/07/2013 12:54, Faheem Mitha a écrit : > > Hi, > > I've got Debian packaging for a piece of software I've written. This > software probably is too specialized to be part of Debian. In any case, > for now I have no plans to try to include it in Debian. However, I'd > like to follow best pract

best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, I've got Debian packaging for a piece of software I've written. This software probably is too specialized to be part of Debian. In any case, for now I have no plans to try to include it in Debian. However, I'd like to follow best practices to the extent possible. Currently the Debian pa