Re: Debhelper for R packages
On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 03:04:23PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> > 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.
I have not said that r-base has a problem. I just think that important
packages could profit from more than one pair of eye balls.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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