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

[Steffen Moeller]

Hi,

Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:

> On 26 August 2009 at 01:57, W. Martin Borgert wrote:

> | 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!

I feel that we should find ways to just use the automated packaging more, to save our man
power for the more interesting bits. The bug management should allow dealing with such
packages, too, bugs should then be forwarded to upstream to comment on. Dirk, would it not
be OK to prepare an ITP for all the packages that your new cran2deb has prepared? It would
inform on the whereabouts of that new package and also clarify that it will not be
uploaded the distribution unless some human soul starts caring for it.

If your colleague plans for a longer commitment to that package, it would probably be nice
to find him as a (Debian) maintainer of that package and drag him into the (Debian)
distribution with you as his mentor. Less illusionary may be to suggest you to just adapt
the source and upload it.

The mostly-dead alioth project has a subdirectory "packages" or so where I keep some
debian folders for some packages, still. The idea was that this way one could eventually
combine the automated updates with the manual improvements done to the packaging .... but
this never went off.

Many greetings

Steffen