Re: Debhelper for R packages
On 7 October 2016 at 22:24, Dylan wrote:
| 2016-10-07 16:25 GMT+02:00 Gordon Ball <gordon@chronitis.net>:
| > On 07/10/16 15:33, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >>
| >> On 7 October 2016 at 15:09, Andreas Tille wrote:
| >> | I'm fine with these changes. If you want to let this propagate to all
| >> | R+BioConductor packages probably a lintian warning makes sense. May be
| >>
| >> Really? We don't have an officially sanctioned policy that _mandates_ this.
[...]
| There is the same thing on the Bioconductor page: "Canonical url for
| use in publications, etc., will always redirect to current release
| version (or devel if package is not in release yet)."
I wasn't clear here. I obviously have no issue with checks for the canonical
URL which CRAN now mandates and checks for in uploads to CRAN; I fixed many
of my (R upstream) packages already. So sure, that check is helpful.
I was gently objecting to making dh-r a mandate. It's a new tool, so let's
give people a chance to try and use / improve it. Or not to if they prefer.
It's better if this evolves naturally than per fiat.
We may well all use it. Time will tell.
Dirk
--
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd@debian.org
Reply to: