[GenABEL-dev] Trying to get ProbABEL packaged in Debian

[L.C. Karssen]

Dear list,

Last week I applied for membership of the Debian-med team [1], this can
be seen as a subproject (a so-called blend) of Debian which focusses on
getting software for the fields of medicine and life sciences packaged
into the default Debian repositories.

The people in Debian-med are very helpful and I'm now in the process of
getting ProbABEL v0.4.1 packaged according to the Debian guidelines.
Luckily I had my Ubuntu PPA package to start from, so a lot of the
learning had already been done. They have already packaged GenABEL
(r-cran-genabel) [2,3], so that's a good starting point for those who
want to package other R-base packages in the GenABEL suite.

I hope to get ProbABEL accepted soon, hopefully in time so that it makes
it into Ubuntu 14.04, which will be an LTS (long term support) release
(Debian Import Freeze is Feb 6th 2014 [4]).


I'll keep the list updated on progress.

Lennart.


[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed
[2] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=r-cran-genabel
[3] http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/r-cran-genabel.html
[4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseSchedule
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