On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, "Steffen Möller" wrote: > 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?
I think we actually should switch to adopting the perl team approach, and create a separate sub-team to package R packages in Debian. I've been working (very slowly) on doing this, and would love more contributors. I'm currently leaning towards having two classes of packages; those which just go directly to debian-r.debian.net, and those which we actually upload to debian. If we do that, packages can be promoted and demoted easily between the two groups simply by changing a single .mrconfig file and doing a real upload. We could then leverage c2d to make the maintenance fairly trivial for the packages, but still have the ability to make manual tweaks to important packages as necessary. > 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. I think having an overarching single group is probably best, but we should certainly have people from all of the different R related disciplines involved... I definitely don't want to make anyone's job harder. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com All bad precedents began as justifiable measures. -- Gaius Julius Caesar in "The Conspiracy of Catiline" by Sallust -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
