Debian Maintainers Keyring changes

2015-01-26 Thread Debian FTP Masters
The following changes to the debian-maintainers keyring have just been activated: alexan...@alemayhu.com Full name: Alexander Alemayhu deb...@helgefjell.de Full name: Helge Kreutzmann Added key: 6D965FB5E316D20354CA7BB041BAA526682AE670 deb...@random.re Full name: Serge Victor

Re: cran2deb is back! Was: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Just to piggyback here, debian-r.debian.net has about 8.6k of these > > packages (bioc, cran, and omegahat). > > Just kudos, Dan, for reviving the deb2cran initiative! > > any plans for providing builds

Re: About language specific package management tools

2015-01-26 Thread Sam Hartman
One huge advantage of teaching our package management tools to understand alternate package technologies and convert on the fly is that we can use the mirror networks of the language-specific packages. Unfortunately, we're fairly picky about licensing issues and legal distributability of packages.

cran2deb is back! Was: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-26 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Don Armstrong wrote: > Just to piggyback here, debian-r.debian.net has about 8.6k of these > packages (bioc, cran, and omegahat). Just kudos, Dan, for reviving the deb2cran initiative! any plans for providing builds for jessie state of affairs? ;) -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko

Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-26 Thread Thomas Hochstein
Torsten Landschoff wrote: > I think Debian lists are forwarded to UseNet Most lists are gated to linux.*, yes. > but it is not as easy as > years ago to get a good UseNet server. Try - news.individual.de - news.eternal-september.org or contact me at for reading access or a feed. Regards, -th

Re: About the recent DD retirements

2015-01-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Tollef Fog Heen err.no> writes: > This means that if you use system packages and want to have two > applications that both want foo.jar installed, but different versions > (since they need different APIs or different bug compatibility), we > don't support that well. For C libraries, there are so

Re: About language specific package management tools

2015-01-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Anthony Towns erisian.com.au> writes: > don't think it's as feasible: > > - if cpan/pypi/etc change their formats and the conversion scripts need >updating, it'd have to be done on every system, rather than in one >place - additional build-depends and depends cannot be expressed upstre