Re: Countrs of r-$FOO-packages, and Debian + Ubuntu package counts
Hi Dirk,
thanks a lot for the interesting stats.
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 08:55:48AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> While this is a Debian list, it is still worth recalling that the Ubuntu PPA
> effort by Michael Rutter is something to reckon with more than five times the
> packages:
> ...
> But before we jump up and down in joy, for Fedora and SUSE two volunteers
> have assembled 15k+ binaries each covering essentially all of CRAN. We need
> a sponsor for more CPU power because running the build scripts is not that
> hard given how well curated CRAN is.
I'm assuming that all this packaging is done automatically which is
great. I wonder whether we could learn some lessons how these efforts
are dealing with version spelling differences like I just observed it in
r-cran-luminescence which required a manual patch[1].
If there is a chance to cope with this automatically I'd love to adopt
this.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-luminescence/-/blob/master/debian/patches/fix_r-cran-minpack.lm_version_string.patch
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