On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 09:57:35AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear Paul and everybody, > > it is the common practice in upstream R packages to store data in binary > objects. Those objects can be modified with R, and exported into various > formats. The Debian archive if full of them. This is not unlike a Python pickle. However, even more to the point, with *this* package, that was a *generated data table*. These *generated* values are clearly not prefered form of modification. I asked the uploader to point to where they came from. I don't think this is unfair. Surely you can see this. > The question asked by Paul is a recurrent question that comes each time the FTP > trainees rotate (basically once per release cycle, because during the Freeze > the FTP trainees find other exciting tasks to do, and then do not seem to have > much time to process NEW anymore). This must mean many people who care deeply about this topic see this as an issue. Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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