On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:02:22PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 07:39:23PM +0200, Johannes Ranke wrote: > > > 1. I'll create > > > > > > https://git.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/r-base.git > > Done. > > > > 2. I inject the current packaging from testing/unstable to this > > > repository and create debian/jessie-backports branch. > > > > Dirk, would you consider pushing your future packaging to this repo? It seems > > to me then future backporting from there would be easier as I could merge the > > changes from (my) master (which is you in that case :). > > I'd happily move the repository I created above to any other location on > git.debian.org Dirk might prefer. > > > > 3. I add Johannes Ranke to the members of Debian Science team to > > > grant him commit permissions > > > > > > Thus Johannes can commit the changes for Jessie backports there. > > > > Actually, no changes were necessary for the backports of the last few releases > > to Jessie. > > I've taken this as good reason to upload to backports. You might also take into account whether all the other R packages in jessie proper will work with the R from jessie-backports, specially those packages that contain compiled extensions ... that is usually not the case for other languages, and that is why you usually won't see backports of Ruby/Perl/Python ;-)
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