Re: Backporting R

[Johannes Ranke <jranke@uni-bremen.de>]

Andreas,

> 
> Since I've got no answer I propose the following:

sorry for not responding, some super-urgent project work came up...

>   1. I'll create
> 
>        https://git.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/r-base.git
> 
>   2. I inject the current packaging from testing/unstable to this
>      repository and create debian/jessie-backports branch.

Dirk, would you consider pushing your future packaging to this repo? It seems 
to me then future backporting from there would be easier as I could merge the 
changes from (my) master (which is you in that case :).

>   3. I add Johannes Ranke to the members of Debian Science team to
>      grant him commit permissions
> 
> Thus Johannes can commit the changes for Jessie backports there.

Actually, no changes were necessary for the backports of the last few releases 
to Jessie.

> 
> Any better suggestion is welcome.

Sounds excellent to me. I will have a look at the repo and consider setting up 
repositories for backports of the recommended packages pulled in by r-
recommended, so these could be brought up to date from time to time as well.

If everything works out, this could give me the chance to skip the manual work 
required today for the backports on CRAN.

> 
> Kind regards
> 
>        Andreas.

Kind regards,

Johannes