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Bug#677846: r-cran-rcurl is almost ready



On 17 June 2012 at 19:55, Praveen A wrote:
| It is uploaded to mentors.debian.net but needs some hardening fixes
| http://mentors.debian.net/package/r-cran-rcurl
| 
| Hi Dirk,
| 
| I think it needs some changes to upstream build files. Can you please check?

I see the following at the webpage

– Buildsystem: Package uses CDBS
+ Package closes a WNPP bug
+ Homepage control field present
+ Package has lintian warnings
  W hardening-no-fortify-functions usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/libs/RCurl.so
  W hardening-no-relro usr/lib/R/site-library/RCurl/libs/RCurl.so
  P no-upstream-changelog
– "Maintainer" email is the same as the uploader
– Package is not native
– Package is the latest upstream version

so some comments in turn:

1) cdbs is a non-issue, all r-cran-* packages currently work that that way.
2) Lintian:
   2a) Hardering: no idea, I never did anything to my packages
   2b) No upstream changelog:  Is there really nothing in the upstream tarball?
3) Maintainer same as uploader: no idea
4) Package is not native: you need to fix that by saving it as foo_1.2.3.orig.tar.gz
5) Package is latest upstream version: no idea what that is about
| 
Cheers, Dirk

| Thanks
| Praveen
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