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Re: Debhelper for R packages (accepted)



On 08/10/16 20:57, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> On 8 October 2016 at 20:01, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> | I couldn't agree more.  I'm a cdbs fan, and some of my packages I maintain with
> | neither cdbs nor dh.  So I was _very_ happy to find out cdbs was the tool used
> | by many r-cran packages, when I started packaging r-cran stuff.  Don't get me
> | wrong: I am happy we now can use dh to build r-cran packages: more choice is
> | always welcome.  So: thanks a lot Gordon and Dylan for your work.  I however
> | won't immediately start converting my r-cran packages from cdbs to dh-r.
> 
> Spot on, and agreed. Andreas et al did well with the updates to r-cran.mk,
> and the cdbs approach is serving us well -- but needs an update. dh-r may fit
> that bill.
> 

dh-r was accepted to unstable today. You are of course free to use it,
or not, as you see fit.

Gordon


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