Re: About the recent DD retirements
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Anthony Towns wrote:
> CRAN has about 6k (~250 in Debian),
Just to piggyback here, debian-r.debian.net has about 8.6k of these
packages (bioc, cran, and omegahat).
> Yes, I really think Debian should have 300k+ packages, including
> everything in all the language archives
Handling this will probably require second-class packages, where we use
automated tools to package the package, and hope for the best. In some
ways, we're already starting to go that way,[1] but it would be nice to
use all of Debian's infrastructure even for those second-class packages,
too.
1: I mean, I've already done this myself for parts of CRAN.
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But if, after all, we are on the wrong track, what then? Only
disappointed human hopes, nothing more. And even if we perish, what
will it matter in the endless cycles of eternity?
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