best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
-source target? I'm not sure if this topic is appropriate for this list. if not, I can take it elsewhere. Please CC me - I'm not subscribed. Regards, Faheem Mitha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 13:47:16 +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Le 29/07/2013 12:54, Faheem Mitha a écrit : >> >> Hi, >> >> I've got Debian packaging for a piece of software I've written. This >> software probably is too specialized to be part of Debian.

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:22:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Faheem Mitha writes: > >> Currently the Debian packaging is part of the same repository as the >> software, in the subdirectory debian/. I'm wondering if I should put it >> in a separate repository. Also, c

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:01:43 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Faheem, > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 04:24:21PM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: >> I've got Debian packaging for a piece of software I've written. This >> software probably is too specialized to be part of De

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-07-31 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Andreas, Thank you for your kind message, and for your interest. On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:06:38 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Faheem, > > I'm really happy that I asked back! ;-) > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 08:03:19AM +, Faheem Mitha wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Jul 20

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-08-08 Thread Faheem Mitha
, are appreciated. I still need to figure out a suitable make-orig-source for creating an orig.tar.gz. On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi Faheem, On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 06:41:59PM +0000, Faheem Mitha wrote: Additionally, I wrote on June 7th asking if the project wanted any help with the gg

Re: best policies for third party Debian packaging and get-orig-source target

2013-08-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Charles, Thank you for your nice reply. On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 03:00:25AM +0530, Faheem Mitha a écrit : r-cran-scales is now in Debian, but r-cran-ggplot2 has not yet been updated. I see that r-cran-scales is not installable, because it depends

Debian enquiry about data files in munsell

2013-08-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, I've been (sort of) deputized by the Debian Med team, who are trying to get munsell into Debian as r-cran-munsell. But they have hit a bit of a hitch. The FTPmasters, who are Debian's gatekeepers, are wondering about the data files in munsell. You ship the file R/sysdata.rda which can b

unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales

2013-08-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, When I try to install r-cran-scales in unstable, I get root@orwell:/home/faheem# apt-get install r-cran-scales [snip] The following packages have unmet dependencies: r-cran-scales : Depends: r-base-core (>= 3.0.1-3) but 3.0.1-3~wheezycran3.0 is to be installed E: Unable to correct probl

Re: unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales

2013-08-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Benjamin Eikel wrote: Hello Faheem, Am Freitag, 9. August 2013, 15:21:36 schrieb Faheem Mitha: Hi, When I try to install r-cran-scales in unstable, I get I think that this behavior is not special to r-cran-scales. Many other packages use ${R:Depends}, too (e.g., r-cran

Re: unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales

2013-08-10 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 03:21:36PM +0530, Faheem Mitha a écrit : When I try to install r-cran-scales in unstable, I get root@orwell:/home/faheem# apt-get install r-cran-scales [snip] The following packages have unmet dependencies: r-cran

Biological data being used by an unpublished research paper is considered proprietary

2013-09-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, This is really not Debian-related, except insofar as the software in question is something that might have been in Debian one day. I talked about that with people on debian-med recently. So, it is technically off-topic. However, I thought that maybe people on these lists would have some

Re: Biological data being used by an unpublished research paper is considered proprietary

2013-09-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
. If you don't want to answer my questions (and let's face it, you probably don't) perhaps you can suggest some suitable mailing list(s)/forum(s)? On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, Peter Rice wrote: On 16/09/2013 11:31, Faheem Mitha wrote: Hi, This is really not Debian-related, except ins

packaging data that can't be distributed as part of a Debian package

2013-09-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, I have a situation where I have some software I want to package for Debian. This software needs to use some biological data, but I was told by the website I got this data from that I could not redistribute it. So, I suppose anyone using the software needs to download it. I'll provide a

Re: Biological data being used by an unpublished research paper is considered proprietary

2013-09-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Steve, On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:59:11PM +0100, Peter Rice wrote: On 16/09/2013 11:31, Faheem Mitha wrote: This is really not Debian-related, except insofar as the software in question is something that might have been in Debian one day. I

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Charles (and everyone else), On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 12:28:11 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi Paul, FTP team and everybody, > first, let me underline that if the FTP team wants to disuss and > amend its decision, I will be happy to participate. > I think that the only good solution is to enga

Re: Decision on R datasets

2013-09-29 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Dirk, Sorry, I only just saw this message. I forgot to ask for a CC in my original message. On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:22:01 + (UTC), Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > Faheem Mitha faheem.info> writes: >> I'm sorry to hear that you will not be working on R packaging for &