On 6 September 2017 at 22:48, Andreas Tille wrote: | [Chris, I took the freedom to move r-cran-mcmc to Debian Science | team since I had the impression that this would generally OK for | you.] | | Hi Dirk, | | On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 10:17:04AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > | Is there any list of affected packages? | > | > I gave this URL about half a dozen times: | > | > http://eddelbuettel.github.io/rcppapt/binnmuAfterR340.html | | Well, you know from own experience that not all information is reaching | the target audience. It might have helped to address Debian Science and | Debian Med team to make some more noise. | | > It contains the list, as well as a way to compute it. | | The list is not fully up to date. I recently uploaded a new version of | r-cran-randomfields which remains inside the list. I need to admit a | shorter page which points directly to tasks to do which is up to date | would be more motivating to lend a helping hand. | | I just uploaded | | r-cran-spdep | r-cran-gam | r-cran-mcmc | | I'll see what I can do the next couple of days on Debian Med and | Debian Science packages. | | > | I intend to refresh with new upstream sources anyway in the next couple of days. May be we can do | > | real uploads of most of the packages ourselves? | > | > Please do. Being behind upstream is essentially never a good idea. | | I'd prefer if you would leave out at least every second chance to repeat | this. We could talk about this once somebody might pay somebody to | follow each and every update of any random R package.
I may once you start to maintain them -- instead of just hoarding them Take but one example: https://packages.debian.org/sid/r-cran-data.table Exactly who is served by not updating one of the more widely used to package to one of the two releases that happened _this calendar year_ ? Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
