Hi, On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 02:39:05PM +0200, Gordon Ball wrote: > it's been in NEW for the last two weeks so hopefully the FTP masters > will have a chance to review it soon.
I've sent an e-mail yesterday to ftpmaster giving reasons to handle dh-r with higher priority. > > Just a very small suggestion. We probably can switch to the canonical > > form of the homepage link for the CRAN packages. At the bottom of the > > homepage of each CRAN package, it is recommended to use the canonical > > form to link the page. For example, for the ape package: "Please use > > the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ape to link to > > this page." > > > > And we can also switch from http to https for Bioconductor link. > > > > I will join the team on Alioth to be able to push myself these changes > > if everybody is ok with these. I'm fine with these changes. If you want to let this propagate to all R+BioConductor packages probably a lintian warning makes sense. May be a small script in dh-r could do the conversion (similar to `cme fix dpkg-control`). > Fine with me. You can also do a pull request against the github repo > (chronitis/dh-r), but if you're interested in these packages joining > d-science would in any case make sense. I'd prefer the repository on git.debian.org. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de

