On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 08:34:35PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 31 May 2009 at 02:03, Julian Gilbey wrote: > | The very useful makefile /usr/share/R/debian/r-cran.mk has one small > | snag that I've just hit: I have a package called eRm (note the > | capitalisation) which installs a COPYING file. The makefile cleverly > | tries to delete it, but fails because $(cranName) is erm, but the file > | is installed in site-library/eRm/COPYING. Here's a suggested patch > | for this. > > Yes, but ... we use that same r-cran.mk for a) about 100 CRAN package in > Debian and b) about 1700 CRAN packages in the cran2deb attempt to package all > CRAN package. So I'd be reluctant to jump to conclusions. > > That said, the patch has merit. I do see occasional lintian warnings and I > may have overlooked the lowercase association to original names. Let me have > another look.
OK. Also, does this mean it's not worth my while trying to package eRm as there will be Debian packages of all of the CRAN packages at some point? Thanks! Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
