Re: A common group on salsa.debian.org for R packages ?
>> Sorry for a late reply to this thread. But I am wondering: why have you
>> decided to make a separate Salsa group instead of making of special
>> subgroup in Debian Science Team group?
>
> Some additional arguments in addition to what Charles said:
>
> * There were R packages from different teams (Debian Science and
> Debian Med currently, DebiChem also has R packages which are
> not yet merged). We want to have a common R team.
>
> * In Debian there are somehow topic based teams (some are organised
> as Blends like Debian Science and Debian Med) and technique (mostly
> programming language) based teams (Python, Perl, etc.) In many
> cases you can argue whether a package belongs to a certain topic
> (or in which of the several potential topics) or the technical team.
> While R is clearly science oriented Debian Science might be the
> natural place but R is also a programming language. The people who
> contributed to the decision (including me) consider the advantage
> to maintain R packages in a technical team higher than to keep
> everything in Debian Science.
I see. Thanks for an explanation.
Best regards,
Boris
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