Hello, I would like to have http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/data.table/index.html for Debian, which is rather fashionable these days, but looking at the dependencies, I refrained from packaging it for Debian Med's R directory. It becomes too much, I thought. And we should not need a sub-blend for R packages :)
To my rescue, Don Armstrong maintains http://debian-r.debian.net/ , i.e. a repository of auto-created R packages, and I happily found the package there. Now, for anything we want in Debian Med we cannot allow for dependencies to external sources - tcR comes to mind as a reverse depdendency for data.table. Is anything coming to your minds how we could make use of Don's effort for Debian Med? In the past, we had discussed the R packages and their packaging per se. We were looking for solutions for the whole of CRAN/BioC/Omegahat. For Debian Med, this is not required. Something else has changed in that many projects are now in github, which may facilitate communicating with upstream to help automated Debian compatibility are becoming more easy to communicate. Could we possibly use Don's repository for bits and pieces to upload to the distribution? It would require an overseeable change to c2d to ensure that c2d knows to be in charge over updates despite a presence of the package in the distribution, and maybe we have some extra information for debian/control and debian/copyright, but then we could have a selected few manually monitored packages auto-built for the distribution. Other communities may find their own respective set of packages. Best, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/trinity-7c038bfa-f0c7-4dad-93e8-9f52c197f180-1430310132405@3capp-gmx-bs11
