Re: [rkward-devel] R backports on launchpad

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi Michael, Michael Rutter schrieb: > I looked into using a Launchpad PPA this morning, and the following line > from the help pages (https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/Uploading) > may be an issue for concern: > > Note: We will not accept uploads of packages that are unmodified from > t

Re: [rkward-devel] R backports on launchpad

2010-04-27 Thread Michael Rutter
Thomas, I looked into using a Launchpad PPA this morning, and the following line from the help pages (https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/Uploading) may be an issue for concern: Note: We will not accept uploads of packages that are unmodified from their original source in Ubuntu or Debian

Re: [rkward-devel] R backports on launchpad

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hello Vincent, Vincent Goulet schrieb: > Please also consider that I build these R packages solely as a service to the > community. I no longer use Ubuntu myself on any of my computers (Macs for > desktop, Debian stable for servers)! I took quite some time to write build > scripts to automate m

Re: [rkward-devel] R backports on launchpad

2010-04-27 Thread Vincent Goulet
Hi Thomas, I had a quick look to the PPA system and, indeed, it does not seem to be a lot of additional work to support. However, I don't really see the benefit compared to what we already provide on CRAN, namely: o R binaries on many Ubuntu releases, on i386 and amd64. Launchpad may support

Re: [rkward-devel] Second call for testing: RKWard 0.5.3-pre2

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi, On Monday 26 April 2010, meik michalke wrote: > am Montag 26 April 2010 (15:36) schrieb meik michalke: > > if we can build for CRAN R as well as for the official installation > > this sounds promising: > https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/Uploading#Using%20packages%20from% > 20other%20d

[rkward-devel] R backports on launchpad

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Dear Vincent Goulet, dear Michael Rutter, I'm writing to you as the maintainers of the R-backports for Ubuntu on CRAN. In the RKWard project, we are currently looking for a workable option for creating binary packages of development snapshots more often. launchpad.net offers "Personal Package A

[rkward-devel] Packagers: RKWard 0.5.3-rc1 is available

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Friedrichsmeier
Hi! -- This mail is of interest to packagers, only. Everbody else please continue working with the 0.5.3-pre3 release (or SVN sources). -- An -rc1 version of RKWard is now available from http://rkward.sourceforge.net/temp/0.5.3-rc1/ . The version number inside the sources is already set to "0.