Re: Action needed for R-pkg Uploaders

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>]

Hi Andreas,

I just checked both of these packages (r-cran-erm and
r-cran-raschsampler) to upgrade them if needed, but they are
up-to-date with upstream.

Best wishes,

   Julian

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 08:18:26AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> Am Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 01:17:44PM +0000 schrieb Julian Gilbey:
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 03:47:42PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > > Hi R-pkg team members,
> > > [...]
> > 
> > > Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>:
> > >  r-cran-erm
> > >  r-cran-raschsampler
> > 
> > I realise I have not used these in a while;
> 
> As a general remark:  I personally use only about 1% of those r-*
> packages I've put my name as Uploader - possibly less.  What matters for
> me personally is that we provide a working scientific environment to our
> users which includes all those R packages which are mostly born out of
> dependencies from other packages or explicit user requests.
> 
> > if someone else would be
> > able to take these over, please feel free to do so!
> 
> In the past this usually endet up by putting my ID to Uploaders.
> Changelog from r-cran-erm has one upload done by Dylan (in CC).  This
> would not really help in the current situation since my intention of the
> initial mail was fo find someone who might take over those mass-uploads
> I did in the past.  Just adding my ID and than do nothing does not make
> sense.
> 
> Alternatively we might start with some removals.  Neither r-cran-erm nor
> r-cran-raschsampler have any rdepends except for science-statistics
> metapackage from where these can easily be removed.  Popcon votes for
> both [1],[2] are not extraordinarily high bit we have some remaining use
> cases.
> 
> The question is: Do we want to remove the package or does someone think
> that firing up `routine-update` on these packages once in a while and
> `dput` the result is a feasible task?  Its a semi-automated process not
> draining much time but someone just has to do it.  Otherwise removal
> seems to be the better option to me.
> 
> Kind regards
>      Andreas.
> 
> [1] https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=r-cran-erm&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1
> [2] https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=r-cran-raschsampler&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 
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   Julian