[Debian-med-packaging] Tim - don't update the archive ... qiime Re: [med-svn] r7572 - trunk/packages/qiime

[Andreas Tille]

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:00:01AM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
> On 08/29/2011 08:44 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Author: tille
> > Date: 2011-08-29 06:44:13 +0000 (Mon, 29 Aug 2011)
> > New Revision: 7572
> >
> > Removed:
> >    trunk/packages/qiime/trunk_compatible/
> > Log:
> > Remove old directory
> this is not really the old one but the one that Tim
> worked with to be compatible with lucid, and hence
> the one that was validated by him.

It is old in the sense that I *moved* Tims work to
   branches/lucid
and you can not simply move in one step with SVN (TTBOMK).
 
> Apparently my renaming was not the best of all
> possible ideas. Tim, a
> 
> svn copy trunk_compatible/ lucid_verified
> 
> should save your effort and is probably better.

IMHO the branches/lucid is what we want, or not?

> @Andreas, qiime is about hundreds of thousands of
> dollars, if not millions, for a single experimental setup. We
> are running such ourselves with a neighbouring institute,
> but not with Debian or Ubuntu. It was not a problem of
> the packaging but with uclust, a problem that Tim has
> helped to identify with his installation script. Nobody
> then tried the second platform again because of time 
> pressure and that second cluster to matching the first
> working one in size. We would now catch them with an easy
> update to 1.3. But that would then need to be validated.

I personally will not upload the Debian package before anybody has
confirmed that the package works.  I just tried to apply those
information I've got (separate denoiser package to be removed;
qiime ships with denoiser, but arch=any).
 
> The installation is delicate, and so are its dependencies.
> We need to get the FTBFS fixed, of course, but it should
> all be through the hands of those with a direct feedback
> from the users of those packages. This is Tim. If you are
> using qiime in your institute also, then fine, but otherwise
> please leave it all to him, even when he is packaging it
> in some old-fashioned way for the time speaking.

I fixed some FTBFS (missing build-depends) and my split of
qiime-denoiser should be considered as a suggestion which will not harm
the functionality.  For sure it should be verified.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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