Hi Gordon,
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:30:03PM +0100, Gordon Ball wrote:
>
> I have moved r-cran-{r6,uuid,pbdzmq} to debian-science git [1,2,3],
> updated the maintainers and VCS URLs, and fixed some other minor issues
> (failing autopkgtests since I forgot R habitually writes to stderr).
>
> I think they should now meet debian-science policy; would you be able to
> sponsor uploads of the updated versions?
I have uploaded r-cran-r6. The other two packages are lacking a
pristine-tar branch that should be provided according to Debian Science
policy to enable others easily obtaining the upstream tarball. Even if
it is admittedly very easy to get it I see no reason to derive from a
workflow that has been established. So please import the original
tarball using
gbp import-orig --pristine-tar ORIG.TAR.GZ
(as it is the case for r6).
Kind regards
Andreas.
> Gordon
>
> [1]: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/r-cran-r6.git/
> [2]: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/r-cran-uuid.git/
> [3]:
> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/r-cran-pbdzmq.git/
>
>
> On 22/03/16 18:20, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 05:52:36PM +0100, Gordon Ball wrote:
> >>> I realised to late that you also ITPed r-cran-r6 and issued another
> >>> ITP for this package. I noticed as well that you opened another
> >>> "versioned" ITP as bug #818622 which is a bit unusual, thought.
> >>
> >> I'm not quite sure I understand. #818622 was an RFS bug based on the
> >> template d/mentors generates after upload, and looks fairly similar to
> >> most of the other RFS mails to debian-mentors@ - but it's my first
> >> time filing ITP and RFS bugs - was there a mistake?
> >
> > No, it was not. The mistake was on my side when failing tp read. ;-)
> >
> >>> I intended to package this as well for the Debian Med team. Since
> >>> your ITP was first I cloned the Git repository at collab-maint, did
> >>> the changes I considered sensible and sponsored the upload.
> >>
> >> Presumably that is why my version got rejected from NEW - although
> >> there was also some discussion about the way R packages handle
> >> licensing (no copy of the MIT license in the tarball) - see debian-legal
> >> @.
> >
> > Well, that's *always* the case on R packages and we had this several
> > times discussed with ftpmaster. I hope it will be accepted now. CRAN
> > behaves simply different than Debian - they do not add the license
> > explicitly and we do it. We have not found a way to convince CRAN
> > maintainers to fulfill our requirement.
> >
> >> My packaging was as a dependency for irkernel -> r-cran-pbdzmq ->
> >> r-cran-r6. This provides R support for the jupyter notebook, but while
> >> I filed an ITP for it it's still fairly beta and I'm trying to get the
> >> dependencies uploaded now and the kernel can follow after another
> >> minor version or two.
> >
> > Sounds sensible.
> >
> >>> I would recommend to maintain R packages in a more fitting team -
> >>> for instance Debian Science. If you have no idea what to do feel
> >>> free to ask me.
> >>
> >> I would be quite happy have team maintenance of these packages. I
> >> mailed debian-science@ and tried their IRC channel a few weeks ago for
> >> sponsors without response (although in fairness I didn't suggest
> >> joining the team in the mail - perhaps that would have worked better).
> >> I would consider debian-med also, but there is no particular
> >> bioscience connection for these packages. What would you advise?
> >
> > Just take Debian Science. If you need a sponsor in Debian Science
> > feel free to consider
> > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends/SoB
> > and I will do my best to serve as sponsor. I usually fail to browse
> > all RFS bugs.
> >
> >> I have a Ubuntu PPA with a fair number of packages related to
> >> interactive computing (including these):
> >> https://launchpad.net/~chronitis/+archive/ubuntu/jupyter/+packages :
> >> perhaps some of the others are of interest.
> >
> > Good hint. So I spotted r-cran-uuid (#814740) before starting myself
> > with this. If you want me to move it to Debian Science and adapt it to
> > Debian Science policy I'd be happy to do this before doing a sponsored
> > upload.
> >
> > Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
> >
>
>
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