On 31 May 2009 at 13:17, Julian Gilbey wrote: | On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 08:34:35PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > On 31 May 2009 at 02:03, Julian Gilbey wrote: | > | The very useful makefile /usr/share/R/debian/r-cran.mk has one small | > | snag that I've just hit: I have a package called eRm (note the | > | capitalisation) which installs a COPYING file. The makefile cleverly | > | tries to delete it, but fails because $(cranName) is erm, but the file | > | is installed in site-library/eRm/COPYING. Here's a suggested patch | > | for this. | > | > Yes, but ... we use that same r-cran.mk for a) about 100 CRAN package in | > Debian and b) about 1700 CRAN packages in the cran2deb attempt to package all | > CRAN package. So I'd be reluctant to jump to conclusions. | > | > That said, the patch has merit. I do see occasional lintian warnings and I | > may have overlooked the lowercase association to original names. Let me have | > another look. | | OK. Also, does this mean it's not worth my while trying to package | eRm
Loaded question :) There are by now maybe 100 r-cran-* packages, and new ones keep appearing. I just put one into NEW yesterday. The debian-med team also added a few. That said ... | as there will be Debian packages of all of the CRAN packages at | some point? I expect to 'officially' announce cran2deb as a apt-get'able repo during useR 2009 in around six weeks. Lots of details to iron out. cran2deb will never do all 10 or 12 arches, and may well stay outside of Debian. And in a way you already can use install.packages() and friends from R --- so it's not clear if there is _one_ best way for everyone. Long story short: if you feel like packaging eRm, go ahead. Creating the few debian/* files for a CRAN is just a matter of a few minutes anyway... Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
