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

[Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl>]

On November 13, 2016 10:36:39 AM GMT+01:00, Bas Couwenberg <sebastic@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>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.

I of course meant the C++ API, which the description suggests it doesn't use. I've reviewed the code and it indeed only uses the C API, so there shouldn't be an issue with GEOS 3.6 unlike some other C++ rdeps.