[med-svn] r5390 - trunk/packages/ensembl/ensembl/57/debian

[Steffen Möller]

Author: moeller
Date: 2010-10-30 21:54:59 +0000 (Sat, 30 Oct 2010)
New Revision: 5390

Modified:
   trunk/packages/ensembl/ensembl/57/debian/README.Debian
Log:
Maybe the Readme has improved, not sure.


Modified: trunk/packages/ensembl/ensembl/57/debian/README.Debian
===================================================================
--- trunk/packages/ensembl/ensembl/57/debian/README.Debian	2010-10-30 19:00:02 UTC (rev 5389)
+++ trunk/packages/ensembl/ensembl/57/debian/README.Debian	2010-10-30 21:54:59 UTC (rev 5390)
@@ -8,12 +8,17 @@
 Debian packaging. The README.source file explains the consequences
 in more detail.
 
-The (current) focus of this packaging is a running local web site.
-The genomic data remains on the remote servers. And it was produced
-there from sequence, not with this local host. This may change, but
-for now, to end somewhere, all the extra bits are left as they are
-upstream, i.e. no further paths adjusted than ultimately required.
+The (current) focus of this packaging is on running a local web site.
+All genomic data shall be accessed remotely via the public servers
+in  Hinxton by default. We have prepare for respective configurations
+to provide access to local data. But this is all untested, still.
 
+The web server drags in all the Ensembl Perl packages, even though
+only fragments of each may be required for the functionality. We
+have, to end somewhere, focused on the web browsing and all the extra
+bits are left as they are upstream. See README.source for changes
+address for increased lintian compliance.
+
 We appreciate feedback from the community on this package. Also,
 if you have ideas for what you can do with it, or about what is
 missing to become truly useful - in the cloud or with your local
@@ -26,10 +31,11 @@
    a second instance on port 8000, not an extension of the
    regular apache2 that we let say "It works!" as usual.
 
- * The Ensembl install depends on archaic versions of
+ * The Ensembl install prefers archaic versions of
    - BioPerl (1.2.3)
    - libwww-perl (5.808)
    which renders a series of regular packages uninstallable.
    Please seriously consider installing Debian in a chroot environment.
 
  -- Richard Holland <holland at eaglegenomics.com>  Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:46:17 +0200
+    Steffen Moeller <moeller at debian.org>  Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:29:05 +0200