On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 08:31:06PM -0400, Carlos Borroto wrote: > BioLinux, from where CloudBioLinux comes, is a close, but > my experience is that the collaboration is not as close as you would > expected.
>From my perspective the collaboration between Debian Med and BioLinux is as close as the time of both parties permits. Debian Med has profited from BioLinux a lot since they are injecting their packaging step by step into Debian Med VCS and in turn they get the packages in the shape they need them to be. > I have also used several institutional HPC clusters, some that are mainly > used for computational biology and run on Debian or Ubuntu. None relied on > oficial packages or even APT. It would be great to learn the reasons why this is the case. > My point was it seems there is > a need to highlight the importance of these benefits in a meeting like the > one mentioned in this thread. +1 > Also a need for information on how to get > reproducibility but still use the official packages. I repeat: Lets implement more dh_auto_test + autopkgtest to packages and make sure upstream provides reasonable test suites. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140320070754.gb14...@an3as.eu