[R-sig-Debian] R 2.5.0 packages for Debian stable/etch

[Johannes Ranke]

Hi Ivailo, Dirk and Deepayan,

(copying in Deepayan Sarkar, the author of rcompgen)

* Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> [070515 00:00]:
> 
> On 14 May 2007 at 21:42, Ivailo Stoyanov wrote:
> | Johannes Ranke <jranke <at> uni-bremen.de> writes:
> | > 
> | > Dear list,
> | > 
> | > R 2.5.0 packages for Debian stable (i386 and amd64) are now available
> | > from CRAN.
> | > 
> | > The new recommended codetools and rcompgen packages haven't completely
> | > made it to Debian yet, but can of course be installed in the standard 
> | > non-Debian ways.
> | > 
> | > Please consult the README file in the Debian directory, and report
> | > problems to me directly or to this list.
> | 
> | Dear Johannes,
> | 
> | your first R-build (without codetools and rcompgen) uploaded at CRAN
> | worked just fine, and when I discovered that you have provided another
> | build including both above-mentioned packages, I have upgraded flawlessly.
> | However, I have noticed that rcompgen installed under
> | /usr/lib/R/site-library, unlike all the other recommended packages.
> | 
> | Is this intended behaviour or a bug in the backport-packages?
> 
> Can't speak for Johannes, but I recently altered debian/rules such that this
> location should be automatically determined based on whether or not
> 'Priority: Recommended' is found in the upstream DESCRIPTION file.  So it may
> also just be inconsistency at the CRAN end...

Yes, I didn't touch that mechanism. I just saw that this line is indeed
missing from the upstream DESCRIPTION file. I believe this is not on
purpose.

> 
> | Otherwise everything works OK sofar, and (last but not least) I'd like to
> | thank you for providing the R backports to Debian R-users!
> 
> Seconded!

Thanks a lot!

Hannes

> 
> Dirk
> 
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