Bug#819343: ITP: r-cran-dplyr -- A Grammar of Data Manipulation for GNU R
Hi Chris,
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 08:45:41PM -0400, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> wrote:
> > Thanks for this ITP since it is also on my list of needed packages for
> > r-cran-treescape which needs several dependencies. I have noticed
> > that its even in NEW. I wonder how you was able to build it without
> > r-cran-bh since I also tried to package r-cran-dplyr[1] but I had the
> > impression that r-cran-bh (#819389) would be required.
>
> The short answer is... I cheated.
Ahhh. :-)
> I edited out the BH reference in LinkingTo in DESCRIPTION and made the
> source package depend on libboost-all-dev (>= 1.58). Since all BH does
> is package a subset of libboost-all-dev, it works even though it's a
> minor hack of the upstream source. In principle, we should be able to
> do the same with anything that uses LinkingTo that isn't (yet)
> packaged with an r-cran-* shell package but we have Debian packages
> for.
>
> Dirk and I did talk about putting together an r-cran-bh that didn't
> needlessly duplicate the libboost-*-dev packages it brings in, but I
> don't know where that stands.
I talked about this with Dirk[1] and may be I should have done this for
the moment as well. Meanwhile Dirk has ITPed r-cran-bh (#819389) and
has uploaded it to new - so this should be dealt with hopefully soon.
It would be nice to have a look into your packaging anyway in the mean
time. So finding it in some VCS (see below) would be helpful.
> > It would be great if you would move your packaging to some VCS (for
> > instance Debian Science). I would volunteer to commit autopkg stuff
> > which I've just prepared[1].
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> > [1] svn://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/R/r-cran-dplyr/trunk/
>
> One of these decades I'll have to learn how to use VCSes for
> packaging.
I'd recommend using Git in this case since there seem to be a tendency
inside Debian into this direction. While you can see from the URL above
I started in SVN. The rationale is that R packaging is in most cases
simple enough that we keep only the debian/ dir which is in line with
the usual workflow in SVN while the typical workflow in Git is to store
upstream source and packaging in one repository.
Since I think r-cran-dplyr would be sensible inside the Debian Science
team you can read how to do it in the Debian Science policy document[2].
I would volunteer to inject your packaging into Debian Science Git if
this would help you in the beginning. If you want me to do this simply
put somewhere online to enable me downloading it (while it resides in
new).
Kind regards
Andreas.
[2] https://debian-science.alioth.debian.org/debian-science-policy.html#idp45010192
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