> On 24 July 2009 at 16:22, Andreas Tille wrote: > | > | Sure. My way of thinking was that the maintainer of an official Debian > | package just draws the source from cran2deb, ads a changelog entry and > | is finished with his work (in an ideal situation). Le Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:03:09AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : > One would _at least_ need a proper debian/copyright. That step is fairly > impossible to automate.
Hi Dirk and Andreas, One first step in this direction would be to help Upstream to directly write a file that would be suitable for Debian. For the most simple packages, which are many, do you think that the R communauty would be interested in making the LICENSE file machine-readable? The same format as the DESCRIPTION file could be proposed, or a variant that tolerates more space. Here are two Debian copyright files I have written for R packages using this format or its variant: http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/r/r-cran-epibasix/current/copyright http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/r/r-cran-haplo.stats/current/copyright >From a CRAN author point of view, using such formats mostly means adding some indentation and a few field names to already existing content. For instance with current LICENSE file of haplo.stats is: --------------------------------------------- License: Copyright 2003 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA For other licensing arrangements, please contact Daniel J. Schaid. Daniel J. Schaid, Ph.D. Division of Biostatistics Harwick Building – Room 775 Mayo Clinic 200 First St., SW Rochester, MN 55905 phone: 507-284-0639 fax: 507-284-9542 email: sch...@mayo.edu --------------------------------------------- And would become: --------------------------------------------- Copyright: 2003 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. License: GPL2-2+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Comment: For other licensing arrangements, please contact Daniel J. Schaid. Daniel J. Schaid, Ph.D. Division of Biostatistics Harwick Building – Room 775 Mayo Clinic 200 First St., SW Rochester, MN 55905 phone: 507-284-0639 fax: 507-284-9542 email: sch...@mayo.edu --------------------------------------------- If a CRAN package provides in its LICENCE or DESCRIPTION file the necessary information, it would be possible to send to the Debian archive packages from a cran2deb repository without altering them (or maybe after a rebuild if they are old). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
