Hi Michael, Michael Rutter schrieb: > I looked into using a Launchpad PPA this morning, and the following line > from the help pages (https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/Uploading) > may be an issue for concern: > > Note: We will not accept uploads of packages that are unmodified from > their original source in Ubuntu or Debian, only packages that include > your own changes. > > Vincent and I do not modify the code from the Debain source packages, > just adjust the build rules to fit the current version of Ubuntu. > Therefore, a PPA of our R builds would appear to violate the above rule.
I think, "source", here, refers to the package as a whole, i.e. including anything in the debian/-directory, not just the "upstream" source code. In fact, a number of PPAs already has this sort of packages, even for r-base: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas?name_filter=r-base . What does not appear to exist on launchpad, so far, is a PPA that systematically brings the most recent version of R to older Ubuntu releases in the way that you do on CRAN. As far as I understand, the technical background of the "no unmodified packages" rule is that each distinct binary package on launchpad must have a unique version-string, as explained on https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/BuildingASourcePackage#Versioning . Thus - technically - touching up the version-string in debian/changelog would be enough to constitute a modified package. See also https://answers.launchpad.net/soyuz/+faq/990 . Regards Thomas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ RKWard-devel mailing list RKWard-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkward-devel
