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

[L.C. Karssen]

Dear list,

I'm happy to inform you that ProbABEL v0.4.1 has been accepted in Debian
Unstable [1]. This means that ProbABEL will be available in the next
Debian release and also in upcoming releases of Ubuntu [2], Linux mint
and other Debian derivatives.
Note that the examples have been split of in a second package called
probabel-examples.

Many thanks to the people of the Debian Med team, especially Andreas
Tille, who mentored me through the packaging process.

To announce this to our wider community I'll draft a post for
www.genabel.org later today. In the mean time, I'll work on releasing
v0.4.2 (and package that for Debian as well).


Best regards,

Lennart.

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/probabel.html
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages

On 28-12-13 12:46, L.C. Karssen wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> Here's an update of my 'getting ProbABEL into Debian' project.
> On 2013-12-17 the package was uploaded for inclusion into the Debian
> repositories by Andreas Tille, my Debian-med mentor. After that it is a
> matter of waiting for one of the ftpmasters to do a final check.
> Unfortunately I got a rejection e-mail today:
>  > Howdy maintainer,
>  >
>  > Thanks for your work so far,
>  >
>  > Could you please document the LGPL license from the files in
>  > src\include? It'd be great to give this another run-through to
>  > catch any other licenses as well. I stoped processing there.
>  >
>  > Let me know when it's back in NEW so that I can process it again.
> 
> I'll try to address this issue (the files in src/include are actually
> copied from R; not sure how many of these we actually need) in the
> coming days and will try to resubmit again. To me it doesn't look like a
> big problem.
> 
> 
> I'll keep you updated,
> 
> Lennart.
> 
> On 09-12-13 13:39, L.C. Karssen wrote:
>> 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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