On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 10:35:57AM -0800, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Package name : vegan > > > > New R packages shouldn't be added with a source name that does not > > match the single binary package that they produce. Please consider > > using r-cran-vegan for both the source and binary package names. > > I remember seeing a discussion somewhat recently; was it > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/11/msg00433.html or even > more recent ?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2008/08/msg00055.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2008/01/msg00019.html #505309 among others. > I must say that I am not particularly convinced, as I have seen R > packages moving from Omegahat to CRAN, or from CRAN to Bioconductor, > and renaming source packages is quite inconvenient. Yes, but this is a fairly rare occurrence. [I'm actually not aware of packages leaving cran completely for bioc... but it's certainly possible.] > If there is a need to implement simple namespaces for our source > packages, perhaps just "r-" would be enough ? But if we adopt a > naming scheme, it would be great to record it somewhere. I would be ok with r- as a prefix, but this should probably be coordinated with Dirk Eddelbuettel. The disadvantage of using r- is that cran and bioc could potentially have conflicting R libraries with the same name... though admittedly, this has not happened yet to my knowledge. [It would also need to be > Unless I am the only one to not use "r-cran-" as a prefix, or unless > we reach a conclusion, I would prefer keeping "vegan" as a source > package name. I'm actually going to be using r-cran- and r-bioc- for the work I'm doing building the entirety of cran to replace the currently defunct debian-cran repository. This probably should get reworked into a Debian R policy. Don Armstrong -- Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120215002340.gj15...@rzlab.ucr.edu
