statistics: who maintains R packages in Debian (was: Re: Debhelper for R packages)

2016-10-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 October 2016 at 20:32, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: | On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 12:08:50PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > On 8 October 2016 at 17:45, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: | > | Otoh: currently R stuff is mainly maintained within debian-science and | > | debian-med. | > | > Well:

Re: Debhelper for R packages

2016-10-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 October 2016 at 20:01, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: | I couldn't agree more. I'm a cdbs fan, and some of my packages I maintain with | neither cdbs nor dh. So I was _very_ happy to find out cdbs was the tool used | by many r-cran packages, when I started packaging r-cran stuff. Don't get

statistics: who maintains R packages in Debian (was: Re: Debhelper for R packages)

2016-10-08 Thread Joost van Baal-Ilić
On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 12:08:50PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > On 8 October 2016 at 17:45, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > | Otoh: currently R stuff is mainly maintained within debian-science and > | debian-med. > > Well: the R package itself, addons like ess, rpy2, rkward, ... , and several

Re: Debhelper for R packages

2016-10-08 Thread Joost van Baal-Ilić
On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 12:12:12PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 7 October 2016 at 22:24, Dylan wrote: > | 2016-10-07 16:25 GMT+02:00 Gordon Ball : > | > On 07/10/16 15:33, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | >> On 7 October 2016 at 15:09, Andreas Tille wrote: > | >> | I'm

Re: Debhelper for R packages

2016-10-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 7 October 2016 at 22:24, Dylan wrote: | 2016-10-07 16:25 GMT+02:00 Gordon Ball : | > On 07/10/16 15:33, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | >> | >> On 7 October 2016 at 15:09, Andreas Tille wrote: | >> | I'm fine with these changes. If you want to let this propagate to all | >> |

Re: Debhelper for R packages

2016-10-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 October 2016 at 17:45, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: | Otoh: currently R stuff is mainly maintained within debian-science and debian-med. Well: the R package itself, addons like ess, rpy2, rkward, ... , and several dozen r-cran-packages maintained are not. Dirk --

Re: Debhelper for R packages

2016-10-08 Thread Joost van Baal-Ilić
On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 08:05:36AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 04:25:40PM +0200, Gordon Ball wrote: > > > > > Sure, and some people prefer GitHub or Gitlab or their own git server. > > > Different strokes for different folks. > > > > They should in any case be in sync,

Re: Debhelper for R packages

2016-10-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 10:24:30PM +0200, Dylan wrote: > > I have already pushed a small change in lintian to tag the uncanonical > homepage of CRAN [1]. Lintian displays only an info tag and not a > warning tag, so you can ignore it. The patch for tag the uncanonical > homepage of Bioconductor

Re: Debhelper for R packages

2016-10-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 04:25:40PM +0200, Gordon Ball wrote: > > You could generate a whole lot of extra substvars (eg, ${R:Homepage}) to > ensure the canonical versions are used, but I'm not really convinced > it's useful. ACK, that's not useful. > > Sure, and some people prefer GitHub