Hi Dirk, Thank you for very politely asking for my thoughts.
I do not have a strong preference one way or the other for closing this Debian bug report. If it's OK with you, I suggest waiting for the thoughts of r-base-core's maintainer. Thanks, Kingsley On 01/16/11 17:45, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 16 January 2011 at 18:20, Vincent Goulet wrote: > | Allow me to intrude although I'm not the maintainer of r-base-core. > > C'mon, you really a co-maintainer in the sense of your work for the > CRAN-distributed .deb packages of R. > > | All directories Kingsey is referring to are to be considered "local", as > their names imply. You may question the idea to copy R.css is these > directories in the first place, but not the fact that the package manager > does not touch the files. It'd be wrong to fiddle with local additions. > | > | Now, as to why R Core decided to copy the file everywhere, I don't know, > but I guess they have a good reason. > | > | So, to sum up, not a Debian issue IMO. > > I second this so maybe this bug report ought to be closed. > > Kingsley, what do you think? > > Dirk > > | Cheers, > | > | Vincent Goulet > | Directeur général adjoint de la Formation continue > | > | Le 2011-01-16 à 07:51, "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <e...@debian.org> a écrit : > | > | > > | > On 15 January 2011 at 22:13, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > | > | On 01/15/11 23:28, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | > | [...] > | > | > That's upstream behaviour. Talk to R Core. > | > | [...] > | > | > | > | Done. > | > > | > They may well point you back and day "distro problem" > | > > | > Worst case we have to a rm command in a postinst for every single r-cran-* > | > package. Would you volunteer for that? Maybe we could check other > aspects > | > of compliance with the never-formalised policy you referred to yesterday > too. > | > > | > Dirk > | > > | > -- > | > Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com > | > > | > > | > > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
