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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 26 August 2009 at 11:55, Steffen Moeller wrote:
| 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

Well, I am under no illusion that I can maintain 1700+ new packages within
Debian.  In fact, I'd rather reduce the load of my 120+ packages.

Which is why cran2deb output is not in Debian.

For starters, you'd have to hand-write 1700+ new-style copyright files making
sure you cover every copyright holder.  Not something I can automate.

In short:  this is a non-starter as far as I am concerned.  

Dirk

| 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

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