debdiff addressed to strecth-staging

2016-09-08 Thread Jose Luis Rivero
Hi all: I've received the bug below that attaches a debdiff that includes a modification in the changelog with the header: +gazebo (7.3.0+dfsg-3+rpi1) stretch-staging; urgency=medium Two quick questions: * what does the rpi suffix mean? (raspberry pi?) * I assume that strech-staging

Re: Debhelper for R packages

2016-09-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
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. | |

Re: Debhelper for R packages

2016-09-08 Thread Don Armstrong
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

Re: Debhelper for R packages

2016-09-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Gordon, Andreas, On 8 September 2016 at 22:37, Andreas Tille wrote: | R is not team maintained and Dirk is not reading all threads on Debian | Science - make sure you CC him (as I did) if you want to be sure he | notices your mail. Well ... procmail still sticks it into the same folder and I

Re: Debhelper for R packages

2016-09-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Gordon, R is not team maintained and Dirk is not reading all threads on Debian Science - make sure you CC him (as I did) if you want to be sure he notices your mail. On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 03:30:20PM +0200, Gordon Ball wrote: > I have written a prototype debhelper module for building R

Debhelper for R packages

2016-09-08 Thread Gordon Ball
I have written a prototype debhelper module for building R packages, which can be found (for the moment) on github: https://github.com/chronitis/dh-r This is meant to provide feature parity with the existing CDBS macro while adding some possibly useful extras: * automatic substvars for known