On 6 September 2013 at 16:38, Lifeng Sun wrote: | Hi, | | On 02:58 Fri 09/06/13 Sep , Rogério Brito wrote: | > If there is indeed interest in packaging R Studio, Lifeng, can you say so? | > The last public activity from yours was making this bug an ITP on 12 Oct | > 2012, which soon will be 12 months old. | | A short answer is "yes", but ... | | IMHO, the most difficult part to get rstudio in Debian official | archive is that rstudio build-depends on several (5 or so) Java | packages missing in Debian. The upstream approach is to ship them as | convenient libraries in binary package, which is unreasonable for | Debian official package, and it's quite a lot of nontrivial work to | package them first. For example, one of them is gwt, a large complex | Java library once in unstable removed recently due to grave bugs.
Really? I am pretty good friends with the RStudio team, and know them as hard-core C++-ers. There are (were?) newer Qt parts, Boost parts, ... in there but I'd be very surprised to find Java. [ And yes, it remains a very large and complicated package. I have no capacity to help, sorry. ] Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org