Re: Debhelper for R packages
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 02:20:07PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 05:45:16PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> I was not speaking about those packages that are just team maintained.
> There are a lot of others that are not - for these a Debian R team would
> make sense ... and for r-base for sure.
I'm sorry but to me it's not clear what problem would be solved by having
r-base being team maintained. I just checked
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/r/r-base/r-base_3.3.1-1_changelog
and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=r-base;dist=unstable and
couldn't find any problem which would clearly benefit from team maintenance.
Bye,
Joost
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