Re: Debhelper for R packages
On 8 September 2016 at 16:49, Don Armstrong wrote:
| On Thu, 08 Sep 2016, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > On 8 September 2016 at 22:37, Andreas Tille wrote:
| > To me github is as good / preferable. Other DDs have no issue developing via
| > GH. I'd maybe make alioth another remote or mirror.
|
| Yeah, I'd love to see this happen too; I actually started looking at
| supporting it, so you could just do:
|
| %:
| dh --with r $@
|
| and get on with writing the rest of the bits.
Exactly! (And you and I still need a weekend hackathon on it now that we
share a home state :)
| > | > However, this is pretty much my first stab at perl so it would
| > | > certainly benefit from oversight from someone with perl experience.
| > | >
| > | > I would be interested to hear from R package maintainers 1) whether it
| > | > works and 2) any features not listed above which you would be useful.
| > |
| > | I think I answered this above.
| >
| > I am happy to help / advise as well. I am a somewhat active package author on
| > CRAN. Happy to get this right, happy to also talk about re-starting Don's
| > effort to get ALL of CRAN into .deb (possibly via secondary repos). There is
| > no reason we can't.
|
| I'm also down to help out. It would be great if this would eventually
| make its way into r-base-dev (or similar) so that newer packages can
| just use it.
Ah yes, meant to mention that in my mail and forgot. Happy to include files
in r-base-dev so that everybody has them automagically, also happy to just
add a Depends to pull this in via sub package. We will figure something out.
Dirk
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