Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 24 Jan 2015, Anthony Towns wrote: > Archive, mirrors, lintian, piuparts, other qa stuff, yep. Right. > Promotion to testing [1], maybe? I think so; I know I personally would like to have a set of bits of R packages which didn't change on about the schedule of a stable release. > BTS, I

Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:03:08AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Anthony Towns wrote: > > CRAN has about 6k (~250 in Debian), > Just to piggyback here, debian-r.debian.net has about 8.6k of these > packages (bioc, cran, and omegahat). Talk about giving 110%! [0] > > Yes, I

Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:29:19AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Anthony Towns dijo [Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:57:55AM +]: > > (Yes, I really think Debian should have 300k+ packages, including > > everything in all the language archives, no matter how special purposes > > (compare against the chiar

Re: About language specific package management tools

2015-01-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:51:32AM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:57:55AM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > > It takes a couple of minutes to download something using pip or > > npm; how long does it take to get a python or nodejs Debianized and > > installable? (eg: learn

Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-23 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Anthony Towns wrote: > CRAN has about 6k (~250 in Debian), Just to piggyback here, debian-r.debian.net has about 8.6k of these packages (bioc, cran, and omegahat). > Yes, I really think Debian should have 300k+ packages, including > everything in all the language archives H

Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-23 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Anthony Towns dijo [Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:57:55AM +]: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 07:02:51PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > - there are "archive networks" for most programming languages these days: > > >CPAN, CRAN, Hackage, PyPI, Rub

Re: About language specific package management tools

2015-01-23 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 10:57:55AM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > It takes a couple of minutes to download something using pip or > npm; how long does it take to get a python or nodejs Debianized and > installable? (eg: learning that npm2deb exists, how to use it, what else > you have to do to have

Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-23 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 07:02:51PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Anthony Towns wrote: > > - there are "archive networks" for most programming languages these days: > >CPAN, CRAN, Hackage, PyPI, RubyGems, NPM, CCAN, etc. Installing > >software from these sources