[R-sig-Debian] cran2deb repository and Squeeze?

Christopher David Desjardins cddesjardins at gmail.com
Tue Jan 12 02:59:24 CET 2010


On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 19:32 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 11 January 2010 at 17:09, Christopher David Desjardins wrote:
> | Hi,
> | I am curious what will happen to cran2deb:
> | 
> | deb http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64 testing/
> | 
> | When Squeeze is released? 
> 
> We will upgrade to what is the-then-new testing and continue. 
> 
> Why would we stop? And FWIW we have already been through one release.

Sorry my question was will this service still be available to squeeze
users or will it be only available to squeeze+1 users?

Thanks.
> 
> | I really hope this service will continue. It has been great being able to
> | aptitude install R packages.
> | 
> | Additionally are these packages signed and is there a key?
> 
> The Release file is signed and there is a key, see 
> 
>     http://debian.cran.r-project.org
> 
> For package signing, I guess we haven't gotten around to it. Feel free to
> submit a patch :)
> 
> Dirk
>



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