On Thu, 13 May 2010, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 21:18 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > 'sm' is the source for r-cran-sm which is not the screen-message source
> > giving you the sm binary.
> 
> I filed the bug against the sm binary package, not the sm source
> package. I was under the impression that the BTS could now handle this
> properly. ow...@bugs.d.o, is that not the case?

This is the case, or at least, it should be.

However, the whole idea of having source package which do not produce
at least a binary of the same name is fundamentally broken, and I have
spoken repeatedly against doing it.


Don Armstrong

-- 
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intoxication level up and down at will, instead of being caught on a
relentless down escalator to bargain basement philosophy and the
parking garage.
 -- Rudy von Bitter _Software_ p124

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