Considering hijacking bioperl.

Dear all,

At work, I needed to install the developper version of bioperl (1.5.2),
which is increasingly used by non-developpers as the currents stable
release (1.4.0) is ageing.

The current maintainer of bioperl in Debian, Matt Hope, is MIA. I
decided to prepare an upgraded package for bioperl instead of installing
from CPAN. I propose to upload it to experimental.

For the moment, the package I prepared has the following maintainer and
uploader:

Maintainer: Debian-Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging DeleteThis @lists.alioth.debian.org>
Uploaders: Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam DeleteThis @plessy.org>

However, I would like to know if the Perl team would be interested to be
uploader, or to be maintainer instead of the Debian-Med packaging team
(of which I am member).

Additionaly, I would like to know if some people would be interested to
package the following CRAN modules, which bioperl 1.5.2 would recommend:

libace-perl: [WWW] http://stein.cshl.org/AcePerl/
libbio-asn1-entrezgene-perl: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Bio-ASN1-EntrezGene/
libclass-autoclass-perl: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-AutoClass/
libconvert-binary-c-perl: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Convert-Binary-C/
libdata-stag-xmlwriter-perl: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/~cmungall/Data-Stag/Data/Stag/XMLWriter.pm
libpostscript-textblock-perl: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/~shawnpw/PostScript-0.06/TextBlock.pm
libset-scalar-perl: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Set-Scalar/
libsvg-perl: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/dist/SVG/
libsvg-graph: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/dist/SVG-Graph/
libxml-dom-xpath-perl [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/~mirod/XML-DOM-XPath-0.13/XPath.pm

(I can file proper RFPs if you want)

A few links:

http://www.bioperl.org
http://wiki.debian.org/BioPerl
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=dopey@debian.org
http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-med-packaging@lists.al...h.debia

Have a nice day,

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Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wako, Saitama, Japan


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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Charles Plessy wrote:

> The current maintainer of bioperl in Debian, Matt Hope, is MIA.

Yes.

> I decided to prepare an upgraded package for bioperl instead of installing
> from CPAN. I propose to upload it to experimental.

Is there any reason to use experimental instead of unstable?

> For the moment, the package I prepared has the following maintainer and
> uploader:
>
> Maintainer: Debian-Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging DeleteThis @lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Uploaders: Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam DeleteThis @plessy.org>

Well, I'd regard it more polite if you would mention Matt as additional
uploader - just to be formally correct.

> Additionaly, I would like to know if some people would be interested to
> package the following CRAN modules, which bioperl 1.5.2 would recommend:
>
> libace-perl: [WWW] http://stein.cshl.org/AcePerl/
> libbio-asn1-entrezgene-perl: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Bio-ASN1-EntrezGene/
> libclass-autoclass-perl: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-AutoClass/
> libconvert-binary-c-perl: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Convert-Binary-C/
> libdata-stag-xmlwriter-perl: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/~cmungall/Data-Stag/Data/Stag/XMLWriter.pm
> libpostscript-textblock-perl: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/~shawnpw/PostScript-0.06/TextBlock.pm
> libset-scalar-perl: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/dist/Set-Scalar/
> libsvg-perl: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/dist/SVG/
> libsvg-graph: [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/dist/SVG-Graph/
> libxml-dom-xpath-perl [WWW] http://search.cpan.org/~mirod/XML-DOM-XPath-0.13/XPath.pm
>
> (I can file proper RFPs if you want)

Well, I just learned that RFPs without explicite interest of a potential
maintainer are not worth the effort in most cases. So if I would be in
your shoes I would only file a RFP bug if somebody would respond to this
mail explicitely stating that he is interested.

Kind regards

Andreas.

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