Hello, Charles Plessy wrote: >> On 24 July 2009 at 16:22, Andreas Tille wrote: >> | >> | Sure. My way of thinking was that the maintainer of an official Debian >> | package just draws the source from cran2deb, ads a changelog entry and >> | is finished with his work (in an ideal situation). > > Le Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:03:09AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : >> One would _at least_ need a proper debian/copyright. That step is fairly >> impossible to automate.
> One first step in this direction would be to help Upstream to directly write a > file that would be suitable for Debian. For the most simple packages, which > are > many, do you think that the R communauty would be interested in making the > LICENSE file machine-readable? The same format as the DESCRIPTION file could > be proposed, or a variant that tolerates more space. from the Debian-med perspective I personally am more interested to learn about the possibility to get BioConductor in. If I recall correctly, the major challenge is to get the machine for the redistribution of the packages, right? Best, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
