Re: R-Survaillance (Was: [med-svn] r3007 - trunk/packages/R/r-cran-surveillance/trunk/debian)
Hi Andreas,
Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, tille@alioth.debian.org wrote:
>
>> Author: tille
>> Date: 2009-01-17 09:15:41 +0000 (Sat, 17 Jan 2009)
>> New Revision: 3007
>
> As you might have noticed I'm working on some R packages to
> finally get r-survaillance packaged. While I'm a complete R
> newbee (and this status will not change any time soon) I
> noticed that building R packages according to the given cdbs
> template is brain dead easy and I never finished the basic
> stuff for 4 packages in less than one our. On the other
the pkg-bioc project has managed to build what is buildable automatically, but we never
got around towards offering it as a service. Dirk maintains the
CDBS for the R packaging and I agree - he made it very easy, indeed.
> hand I'm not really sure whether all these dependencies of
> r-survaillance really belong into our SVN.
Probably not :)
> I just followed
> Steffens scheme in the R subdirectory but I wonder whether
> there are more reasonable places than to "hide" for instance
> GIS stuff under the topic medicine.
> I would like to clarify this before issuing the according
> ITPs. Any better suggestions?
No, not really. My answer back then was to have pkg-escience as a separate alioth project.
But, it is less fun, I think. And not too much is gained. I could imagine that having a
subfolder or r-surveillance could make sense in which you keep those extra dependencies,
but this very much depends on the package. If they are just other regular R packages, then
I would not (and have not) distinguish(ed) about primary and secondary packages at all.
Best,
Steffen
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