Re: Moving some R packages to Debian Science team
Hi again,
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 07:11:07PM -0500, lawrencc@debian.org wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 09:07:57AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > I'd volunteer to do the following if you agree:
> >
> > 1. Moving the said packages to Debian Science Git repository
> > using dgit. I'll put you as Uploader for these packages
> > and the Debian Science team as maintainer
> > 2. Updating to latest upstream version
> > 3. Migrating the packaging from cdbs to dh-r
> > 4. Rename the source packages of erm, mcmcpack, raschsampler
> > and zelig to r-cran-* to have a consistent naming scheme
> > which makes spotting those packages easier in QA tools.
> >
> > Please tell me whether you agree with this.
>
> That's all fine with me. You'll note, however, that Zelig can't be
> updated rightaway to the current upstream version because we don't
> have r-cran-aer (upstream AER) and there are license issues with the
> upstream sources.
>
> (In fact if you want Debian Science to take over all the r-* packages
> I maintain, it's fine by me.)
I now have uploaded all packages I have mentioned with the exception of
Zelig. It would be nice what exact licensing issues are preventing AER
from beeing packaged. Any links?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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