Re: Backporting R
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 07:39:23PM +0200, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> > 1. I'll create
> >
> > https://git.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/r-base.git
Done.
> > 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 :).
I'd happily move the repository I created above to any other location on
git.debian.org Dirk might prefer.
> > 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.
I've taken this as good reason to upload to backports.
> > 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.
Fine.
> If everything works out, this could give me the chance to skip the manual work
> required today for the backports on CRAN.
I'd be delighted if this could save some work.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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