<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Hi Thomas,<br><br></div>I would recommend you also to contact debian-science team,<br></div><div>if you do not find a sponsor.<br><br></div>There are some people, which are working on R-packages, so<br></div>they may be interested in this package also.<br><br></div><div>Also, there should be a lot of people around your place, if you<br></div><div>want to reintroduce your GPG-key in Debian keyring.<br></div><div><br></div>Best regards<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><br>Anton</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-12-04 13:44 GMT+01:00 Thomas Friedrichsmeier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.friedrichsmeier@ruhr-uni-bochum.de" target="_blank">thomas.friedrichsmeier@ruhr-uni-bochum.de</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi!<br>
<br>
I'm upstream developer and debian maintainer of RKWard, a KDE-based<br>
frontend to the R statistics language. RKWard has been included in the<br>
debian archives for more than nine years, and I have been the uploader<br>
as "DM" for more than five years.<br>
<br>
Currently, I cannot upload any new packages because my registered GPG<br>
key is too short (1024 bits). As this is the only package I maintain,<br>
the cost-benefit-ration of getting my new key signed by two DDs seems<br>
prohibitive, ATM.<br>
<br>
Debian has already missed out on one release (0.6.3) of RKWard. Now a<br>
new release is approaching, and I am looking for a solution to get it<br>
uploaded.<br>
<br>
My preferred option for this would actually be to pass on<br>
maintainership to the QT / KDE team. This does not seem entirely out of<br>
scope (to me), as RKWard has moved to the KDE.org umbrella, last year<br>
(some last few bits still dangling on SF.net). While it is still in<br>
"playground" on KDE.org, I expect to submit it to KDE "review", soon,<br>
targetted for inclusion in extragear.<br>
<br>
As a second best option, I'm looking for a sponsor to upload the<br>
upcoming version 0.6.4 to the archive.<br>
<br>
In either case, the most recent debian packaging can be found at<br>
<a href="https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=rkward.git&a=tree&f=debian" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=rkward.git&a=tree&f=debian</a> . Note that this<br>
includes support for legacy versions of KDE, R, and debian. The most<br>
important reason for this is that it is also used to auto-build Ubuntu<br>
packages reaching back to "Lucid". This may or may not be a problem to<br>
you, however, if you are thinking about a modernization of the package,<br>
you should be aware that the upcoming release 0.6.4 is rather likely to<br>
be the last KDE 4-based release of RKWard, and with the port to KF5, a<br>
lot of legacy code will fall away, in any case.<br>
<br>
Thanks for your time!<br>
<span><font color="#888888">Thomas<br>
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