Dear all, I would like to ask on this list a question I asked to the FTP team last December, and for which I have not received answer yet.
Is tabular data in a binary format that can be read, written, modified and exported using free software acceptable for Debian, or shall we contact the upstream author to check if he used an intermediate format (be it text, or binary like .odt or .xls) and require the addition of this file to the source, or shall we provide a text export? I ask because it was one of the reasons for rejecting the r-cran-epir package. > * Also the data/*.Rdata files appear to be binary. I don't know enough about > them to make an iformed decision on if those can be built from source or if > they are in their native format. These files are tables stored as binary R objects. Using the GNU R program, one can load, modify, display and save them, and export them to common formats such as CSV. I tried to clarify the situation with the FTP team, but no answer seems to come since my last email, on the 8th of January. http://bugs.debian.org/557199 I therefore submit the question to everybody's sagacity on Debian's main discussion place. An important part of the problem is that other r-cran-* packages have similar files, since they play a role in the documentation, as example data, and also in regression tests. I am currently holding my work on the r-cran-* packages on which I am uploader. My personnal policy is to not upload anything if I am not sure it would not be accepted as a new package. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
