On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:08:20AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > probably not the right list, debian-science list comes rather to mind > because Dirk Eddelbuettel (in CC) is also reading there. So please move > to this list in case you want to continue discussing this issue.
Done. Totally forgot to CC Dirk, thanks for noticing! > I once suggested a similar brain-stormish idea to Dirk (IMHO in PM some > years ago). Yes, the copyright issue is the hardest reason why > automatic builds can not go into Debian. However, we could consider > manually written copyright files step by step for packages in our interest > and trigger a move to official Debian in case this file exists. I do > not think that any signed checksums are needed. Yes, this approach may make sense. AIUI, cran2deb currently creates the debian/copyright file. My idea of adding a signature was to give the build process (and ftp-master) a trust-path, so that it's clear that some human was involved in writing up that file. But I did not think thoroughly about that yet. > > Given that ftp-masters meet next month, it might be a good point for > > their agenda? I could bring this up and maybe even meet with them to > > discuss that, as they meet "just around the corner". Anyone interested? > > I'd consider this a good idea. However, you should definitely > coordinate with Dirk. IMHO it makes no sense to convince ftpmaster to > accept something if the main person who is involved into cran2deb > refuses to do something into this direction. Full ACK. I was not going to push that hard on my own, that's why I asked if there is some interest in pushing this in the first place. I guess there is, but if it's not in "upstreams" interest, we'd better not take that route. I guess it will take a few years and several discussions anyway. Best regards, Manuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110218121047.GD19055@woodstock
