Re: Debhelper for R packages
On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 08:05:36AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 04:25:40PM +0200, Gordon Ball wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
Yup. Otoh: currently R stuff is mainly maintained within debian-science and
debian-med. Scaling benefits are there; I don't think moving to a new debian-r
would improve stuff _that_ much.
Also, R packages is not exactly dh-r. Having all R packages semi-centrally
maintained would be nice. I am not quite sure wether having dh-r in the same
group would bring very huge benefits.
Bye,
Joost
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