[R-sig-Debian] Problems when installing RODBC in debian etch

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 27 June 2008 at 21:46, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| * Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> [080627 19:30]:
| > 
| > Johannes,
| > 
| > On 27 June 2008 at 17:05, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| > | Hi,
| > | 
| > | I just added RODBC to the list of packages maintained for the Debian
| > | etch backports on CRAN. The r-cran-rodbc packages are on their way to
| > | CRAN - if you want them now, you can use
| > | 
| > |     deb http://chem.uft.uni-bremen.de/r-cran etch-cran/
| > | 
| > | as an alternative.
| > 
| > Super -- thanks for the quick addition!
| > 
| > Depending on how much energy and time you have, you could try to establish
| > contact with the folks at backport.org so that other Debian users (who may
| > not know about the CRAN repos) could get it too.  Just a thought.
| 
| Yes - I would have to make the packages compatible to their policy and
| need a Debian Developer to do the uploads.

I see -- as backports.org is not 'officially' Debian I was hoping that it may
have a more lenient upload policy. Guess we'll make do with CRAN then. Could
you make sure the README reflects your package ports too?

Thanks again, Dirk

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