On 2 May 2017 at 06:26, Daniel Baumann wrote: | Package: r-base | Version: 3.4.0-1 | Severity: minor | | Hi, | | the upstream tarball of r-base contains an empty directory: | | tests/Pkgs/exNSS4/man | | when importing r-base into git, this gets lost (because git cannot track | empty directories). and with that directory missing, the 'make check' | makes the package FTBFS. | | it would be nice if the upstream build system would create the missing | directory if necessary, or, if upstream could put a placeholder file | into the directory to preserve it.
Right. But there isn't a lot I can do -- besides using my upstream bugzilla account and filing this as https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17266 Dirk | | Regards, | Daniel -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
