Bug#617296: Any Progress with RStudio?

[Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 02:58 Fri 09/06/13 Sep     , Rogério Brito wrote:
> If there is indeed interest in packaging R Studio, Lifeng, can you say so?
> The last public activity from yours was making this bug an ITP on 12 Oct
> 2012, which soon will be 12 months old.

A short answer is "yes", but ...

IMHO, the most difficult part to get rstudio in Debian official
archive is that rstudio build-depends on several (5 or so) Java
packages missing in Debian. The upstream approach is to ship them as
convenient libraries in binary package, which is unreasonable for
Debian official package, and it's quite a lot of nontrivial work to
package them first.  For example, one of them is gwt, a large complex
Java library once in unstable removed recently due to grave bugs.



Regards,
Lifeng

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