Bug#1017966: lintian: Systematic false positives for source-is-missing in r-cran-* documentation

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Hi,

another remark about the source-is-missing tag in r-* packages: For
r-cran-dplyr I've just added lintian-overrides[1] for other false
positives than embedded png files.  The "source-is-missing" tag is
in cases of R documentation not sensible in general since the source
can always be found in the same directory next to the html file in
the according *.Rmd file.  May be this tag should be suppressed in
general (even for embedded JS since the doc can be recreated as
in the example of r-bioc-genomicfeatures[2] via

   cd inst/doc && Rscript -e "require(knitr); require(markdown); knit('GenomicFeatures.Rmd', 'GenomicFeatures.md'); markdownToHTML('GenomicFeatures.md', 'GenomicFeatures.html', options=c('use_xhtml', 'base64_images'));"

It would be great if those false positives from lintian could be
avoided to reduce the amount of manual maintainer interaction.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-dplyr/-/blob/master/debian/source/lintian-overrides
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-bioc-genomicfeatures/-/blob/master/debian/rules

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