Re: Countrs of r-$FOO-packages, and Debian + Ubuntu package counts
Hi,
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 08:01:40AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> I think we need to write ourselves a lintian (or equivalent) checker and
> patch locally.
The good thing in the r-cran-luminescence case is that upstream has
fixed it immediately in their repository and it will be fixed in the
next release,
> I have the exact same issue in one my packages that upstream
> is (in our eyes only) "buggy" by substituting a hyphen with a dot leading
> to different sorting for us (but not them as the R sorting tolerates it).
I admit that I know about this sorting tolerance but I consider that
the *different* spelling of a version number is a bug anyway.
Kind regards
Andreas,
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