On 8 September 2016 at 16:49, Don Armstrong wrote: | On Thu, 08 Sep 2016, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > On 8 September 2016 at 22:37, Andreas Tille wrote: | > To me github is as good / preferable. Other DDs have no issue developing via | > GH. I'd maybe make alioth another remote or mirror. | | Yeah, I'd love to see this happen too; I actually started looking at | supporting it, so you could just do: | | %: | dh --with r $@ | | and get on with writing the rest of the bits.
Exactly! (And you and I still need a weekend hackathon on it now that we share a home state :) | > | > However, this is pretty much my first stab at perl so it would | > | > certainly benefit from oversight from someone with perl experience. | > | > | > | > I would be interested to hear from R package maintainers 1) whether it | > | > works and 2) any features not listed above which you would be useful. | > | | > | I think I answered this above. | > | > I am happy to help / advise as well. I am a somewhat active package author on | > CRAN. Happy to get this right, happy to also talk about re-starting Don's | > effort to get ALL of CRAN into .deb (possibly via secondary repos). There is | > no reason we can't. | | I'm also down to help out. It would be great if this would eventually | make its way into r-base-dev (or similar) so that newer packages can | just use it. Ah yes, meant to mention that in my mail and forgot. Happy to include files in r-base-dev so that everybody has them automagically, also happy to just add a Depends to pull this in via sub package. We will figure something out. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org