Bug#844197: ITP: r-cran-rgeos -- GNU R interface to geometry engine

[Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>]

On November 13, 2016 10:26:18 AM GMT+01:00, Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> wrote:
>Package: wnpp
>Severity: wishlist
>Owner: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
>
>* Package name    : r-cran-rgeos
>  Version         : 0.3-21
>  Upstream Author : Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand@nhh.no>
>* URL             : https://cran.r-project.org/package=rgeos
>* License         : GPL
>  Programming Lang: GNU R
>  Description     : GNU R interface to geometry engine
>This GNU R package provides an Interface to the Geometry Engine - Open
>Source
> (GEOS) using the C API for topology operations on geometries.
>
>
>Remark: This package is needed to run the unit tests for r-cran-sp.  It
>willl
>be maintained by the Debian Med team at
>svn://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/R/r-cran-rgeos/trunk/

Please make sure it doesn't use the GEOS C API to avoid issues with GEOS 3.6.