On Tue, 09 Apr 2013, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > It really isn't needed as debian-r.debian.net / cran2deb is a huge > big fat binNMU generator (and more, package creator).
debian-r.debian.net actually uses a modified cran2deb to create source packages, which get built in the normal debian pathway (dak, wannabuild, and sbuild), so it's not quite so easy just to rebuild everything. [But it is fairly trivial given a list of packages and wanna-build.] However, because I didn't notice that cran2deb doesn't use the substitution variable, and also doesn't handle new debian revisions properly, it's even more complicated. I'd kind of like to be able to have a working r-api provides and R:Depends when I finally get around to coding up everything properly. > That is a discussion we should have about the possible "moonshoot" > of having the 4400+ CRAN package (or a "reasonable" [ for different > definitions of "reasonable" ]) subset in Debian. Right. I'd certainly like to see more r-cran- packages in Debian proper. [Probably with some sort of cohesive project like the perl packaging group.] But I think this isn't really on topic for this bug; we probably should bang this all out on some other mailing list or meeting. Don Armstrong -- The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game. -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ ยง11 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
