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Re: Debhelper for R packages



Hi,

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 04:25:40PM +0200, Gordon Ball wrote:
> 
> You could generate a whole lot of extra substvars (eg, ${R:Homepage}) to
> ensure the canonical versions are used, but I'm not really convinced
> it's useful.

ACK, that's not useful. 
 
> > Sure, and some people prefer GitHub or Gitlab or their own git server.
> > Different strokes for different folks.
> 
> They should in any case be in sync, providing I remember to keep them
> so. The Vcs-Url in d/control will remain the git.debian.org one.

IMHO that's not matter of personal preference but a matter of how to
work together in a Debian maintainers team.  There are tools working on
git.debian.org but not elsewhere.  I keep on thinking that a Debian R
maintainers group would make a lot of sense and R packages should be
maintained on alioth.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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