On Sat, 24 Jan 2015, Anthony Towns wrote: > Archive, mirrors, lintian, piuparts, other qa stuff, yep.
Right. > Promotion to testing [1], maybe? I think so; I know I personally would like to have a set of bits of R packages which didn't change on about the schedule of a stable release. > BTS, I somewhat don't think so? Probably just a single pseudo-package for coordinating groups of automatically packaged packages; if someone really wants to file more than one or two bugs, then it's probably a sign that the package should become a fully-supported package. [Or the person filing bugs should get more involved and help promote it to becoming a real package.] > NEW-esque license review seems impractical. Yeah; for debian-r, we assume that CRAN has the license listed correctly, and we just go from there. [Well, the awesome cran2deb stuff does it; I just modified it and built the results.] > Probably also wants an additional db tracking what upstream > commit/whatever was converted to which Debian-ised version. Right. > [1] Oh, dude! I finally thought of a possible rename for britney: > pro-test as in promotion to testing. Sounds good to me. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember when you are old." -- Shinka proverb. (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p413) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
