On 13 May 2010 at 12:00, Don Armstrong wrote: | On Thu, 13 May 2010, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > On 13 May 2010 at 10:01, Don Armstrong wrote: | > | If I was paying more attention when R packages started coming into | > | the archive, I would have lobbied harder for them to follow the | > | lib*-perl | > | > If memory serves, I started with RODBC and tseries. Thanks to the | > corresponding debian/changelog entries, that can be pinned to March | > 2003. Seven years ago. AFAICR we had no consistent Perl Policy (TM) | > at the time. | > | > On 30 Dec 2003 I posted (to debian-devel and r-devel) a proposed 'Debian R | > Policy' but never followed in a formal manner. | | Yeah, it's mainly my fault that I didn't notice or respond properly. | [I was even using R then, though I wasn't working on the BTS.] | | > *Informally* we now have this consensus: new r-cran-$FOO packages of | > CRAN sources $FOO comes with source and binary named r-cran-$FOO. | | Awesome; that's really what I wanted to make sure was happening. | | > So the question now is whether we need to clean up the several dozen | > packages that do not correspond. | | It's not worth it, IMO. The pain of renaming source packages is worse | than the minor issue of bugs ocassionally getting into the wrong | place. So long as we try to avoid the problem for new packages, it's | good enough as far as I'm concerned.
Bingo. I fully agree. And I personally don't care that much about the r-cran-* packages in Debian (besides of course religiously maintaining my own ones). I care more about, and look after, the result of the 'cran2deb' GSoC I mentored and which lives at http://debian.cran.r-project.org It has i386 and amd64 repos of all of CRAN as r-cran-* --- as of today 2243 packages. If you run testing, or can run testing binaries, it is quite useful. Now, for those on other arches .... tough bananas I am afraid. -- Regards, Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
