Where has the Debian respository gone?

DE> More than advice, we need a volunteer to "backport" the current R package(s)
DE> for Debian to the Debian stable distribution. As I said, testing and
DE> unstable are taken care of (and yes, testing is still lagging because of the
DE> now much more formal interdependence of packages; R 2.0.* will appears once
DE> all dependent packages are available on all architectures)

I'm sure this is in itself proof that I'm not the person to do it but
can you say a bit more about what's involved Dirk?  I run a pretty low

Any chance I can be useful?  Could I team up with someone who really
knows what s/he is doing but doesn't use Debian stable and work this
together?

Let me know, I'd love to put something very direct back into the R project.