Hi, On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 02:20:07PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 05:45:16PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > > > IMHO that's not matter of personal preference but a matter of how to > > > work together in a Debian maintainers team. There are tools working on > > > git.debian.org but not elsewhere. I keep on thinking that a Debian R > > > maintainers group would make a lot of sense and R packages should be > > > maintained on alioth. > > > > Yup. Otoh: currently R stuff is mainly maintained within debian-science and > > debian-med. Scaling benefits are there; I don't think moving to a new > > debian-r > > would improve stuff _that_ much. > > I was not speaking about those packages that are just team maintained. > There are a lot of others that are not - for these a Debian R team would > make sense ... and for r-base for sure.
I'm sorry but to me it's not clear what problem would be solved by having r-base being team maintained. I just checked http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/r/r-base/r-base_3.3.1-1_changelog and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=r-base;dist=unstable and couldn't find any problem which would clearly benefit from team maintenance. Bye, Joost -- Always gonna keep in touch // Never want to use a crutch × MacKaye, Preslar, Baker, Nelson 1982
