Bug#505309: Source package name clash?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

On 28 November 2008 at 09:41, Pier Luigi Pau wrote:
| snow (Steganography using ASCII files) was uploaded with the same
| source package name that was used for binary package r-cran-snow (GNU
| R package for 'simple network of workstations').
| 
| In fact, the Package Tracking System is showing testing transition
| excuses for snow, along the lines of r-cran-snow being out of date on
| every arch (obviously, the new source package doesn't build it). Not
| that this matters much because of the Lenny freeze.
| 
| I searched mailing lists for references on whether this was a planned
| move, with r-cran-snow being slated for reupload as src:r-cran-snow in
| the near future, or a blunder. So far I couldn't find any.
| 
| What's the situation with snow and r-cran-snow in Debian, then?

I don't know. 

I sent an email to Jari and ftp-masters when I saw 'his' snow in NEW, but I
never heard anything back.

Dirk

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