Bug#505309: Source package name clash?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

reassign 505309 ftp.debian.org
thanks

This is now a bug at the ftp site as we have two packages with source name
'snow'. 

Dirk

On 28 November 2008 at 07:23, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| 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| | excuses for snow, along the lines of r-cran-snow being out of date on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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