[pkg-bioc] Package r-cran-climatol wanted in Debian

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi,

You hit a list that is close to dead...

On 26 August 2009 at 01:57, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| my colleague would like to use the package r-cran-climatol. The
| package r-cran-climatol_1.0.3-0.r2d.1_all.deb from
| http://pkg-bioc.alioth.debian.org/debian/cran/ seems to work
| fine. However, it is not (yet) in Debian, therefore one cannot
| rely on the typical advantages of an official Debian package,
| like security support, use of the BTS, etc. So we would like to
| see it in Debian. What is the best way to get it into Debian?
| Shall I file an RFP? Do I have to upload it myself? TIA!

If you run testing on i386 or amd64 then you can use the repository detailed
(somewhat briefly) at

  http://debian.cran.r-project.org

It has

  edd at ron:~$ apt-cache show r-cran-climatol
  Package: r-cran-climatol
  Priority: optional
  Section: gnu-r
  Installed-Size: 380
  Maintainer: cran2deb autobuild <cran2deb at gmail.com>
  Architecture: all
  Source: climatol
  Version: 1.0.3.1-1cran1
  Depends: r-base-core
  Filename: testing/r-cran-climatol_1.0.3.1-1cran1_all.deb
  Size: 52890
  MD5sum: 9edcd01ba6d5bb63935930b5189e1f22
  SHA1: d474992a633c9f068ecf7cd090e36e2d0820b08f
  SHA256: cb0037da2bca09966ba90849ec764b7528ff0eb97116b76113a82024b2cb6678
  Description: GNU R package "Some Tools for Climatology"
   .
   Functions to fill missing data in climatological (monthly) series and
   to test their homogeneity, plus functions to draw wind-rose and
   Walter&Lieth diagrams.
   .
   URL: http://webs.ono.com/climatol/climatol.html
  
  edd at ron:~$

Obviously, this is not an official Debian project.

Otherwise, yes.  RFP and all that work, you can also build a local package
(as essentually a r-cran-* packages share the same debian/* files which take
two minutes to edit for debian/{control,copyright,changelog} ... which is why
we automated that in a GSoC 2008 project and a follow-up leading to the
recent UseR 2009 presentation.  If you have questions about any of that, ask
Charles or myself.

I need to blog somemore about cran2deb. Works great for me, and based on the
weblogs on the Xen instance hosting it, we're slowly getting more and more
visitors.

Dirk

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