On 30 June 2014 at 16:11, Andreas Tille wrote:
| I'm trying to implement checks for the binary packages to the best of my

Please write a 'new source available' check, or just use what debian/watch
already gives. And the QA pages. And and and.  Dozens of "your" (ie teams)
packages are MONTHS and MANY RELEASES behind which is a disgrace.  

What we talk about here is marginal.  And you are free to add other
subroutines to your local debian/rules.

| knowledge.  In my current roundup of the R packages which are maintained
| by the teams I'm involved in I was adding autopkgtest control files
| running the unit tests if there were any provided in the upstream source.

Again there is _one_ canonical way the R community tests:  R CMD check
against the pristine tarball.  It invokes all available tests.  Do not
reinvent the wheel.

If you have spare cycles, keep your packages current. Please.

Dirk

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