On 14 January 2011 at 23:12, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: | Package: r-base | Version: 2.12.0-1 | Severity: wishlist | | | Hi Dirk, | | Thank you very much for the Herculean effort | you've put into maintaining quantitative packages. | | I like the prediction in a 2003 draft of Debian's | R Policy | | [As a] "defense [against conflicts between | apt-get and update.packages()], it is | anticipated that future R versions will add a | new entry record 'Package-Manager: Debian' to | the installed DESCRIPTION file of each | package." | | If you think it would still be a good idea, please | implement it.
Neither the developers reference nor the debian policy seem to have any current reference to a field 'Package-Manager' so I am closing this. Dirk | Thanks, | Kingsley | | -- System Information: | Debian Release: lenny/sid | APT prefers unstable | APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') | Architecture: i386 (i686) | | Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) | Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash | | Versions of packages r-base depends on: | ii r-base-core 2.12.0-1 GNU R core of statistical computat | ii r-recommended 2.12.0-1 GNU R collection of recommended pa | | Versions of packages r-base recommends: | ii r-base-html 2.12.0-1 GNU R html docs for statistical co | ii r-doc-html 2.12.0-1 GNU R html manuals for statistical | | Versions of packages r-base suggests: | ii ess 5.3.11-1 Emacs mode for statistical program | pn r-doc-info | r-doc-pdf <none> (no description available) | | -- no debconf information | | -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
