Hi, in order to make Arrow available to the R community through CRAN (R's package archive), we need to get the Arrow binaries submitted to the Debian <https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/distribute-deb/distribute-deb.html#adding-packages-to-debian> and the Fedora <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/New_package_process_for_existing_contributors> repositories.
The easiest way would be if someone in the Arrow community is already a Debian and Fedora developer that can help us get them distributed appropriately. Is this already the case? Also, is someone already working on these tasks? ARROW-4450 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-4450> (Debian) and ARROW-4451 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-4451> (Fedora) track this work in JIRA. Thanks in advance. Best, Javier
