On 09/09/16 08:28, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 05:12:28PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> | >> | Yeah, I'd love to see this happen too; I actually started looking at >> | supporting it, so you could just do: >> | >> | %: >> | dh --with r $@ >> | >> | and get on with writing the rest of the bits. >> >> Exactly! > > Yes, that's the usage (it was somehow missing in Grodons mail to the list).
The invocation should be %: dh $@ --buildsystem R (This should be in the package README, but yes, I probably should have put it in the email) I implemented a debhelper buildsystem rather than an individual sequence module - my understanding was that let me override (configure, build, install, test) rather than just adding an R sequence module and letting other bits of dh detect autoconf/Makefile and break the R build - but anyone with better dh knowledge can correct me here. > >> | I'm also down to help out. It would be great if this would eventually >> | make its way into r-base-dev (or similar) so that newer packages can >> | just use it. >> >> Ah yes, meant to mention that in my mail and forgot. Happy to include files >> in r-base-dev so that everybody has them automagically Inclusion in r-base-dev would be a possibility, but I wonder if it makes more sense to have a separate package - I imagine real use might require a number of early updates, and having to do a whole R rebuild in each case seems a bit heavy. I noticed that dh_python/pybuild was originally shipped in the python binary but subsequently moved to a separate package, presumably for this reason. > > This would be really cool. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. >