Hi, On 05.11.2017 at 10:54, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > scatterplot3d is the only CRAN package maintained in Debian Science Team whose > source package name does not begin with "r-cran". > > Please rename the source package to r-cran-scatterplot3d, to facilitate the > identification of the package when making searches on source package names, > and > also for consistency.
is it really worth the hassle? Carrying a transitional package around, going through new again, etc.? There are packages around outside Debian Science which doesn't use r-*-<PACKAGENAME> as source package name. To identify R packages you have to look for (Build-)Dependencies anyway as some not-only-R-packages build binary R packages ... and there is still the section "gnu-r" to identify them - well, sadly not really [1]. I'd rather ask why don't the other R packages in Debian Sciences follow the recommendation in the "Debian R Policy"[2] section 2.1? "The Debian source package can in most cases retain the <Rpackage> name. E.g., for the examples above one could use car, affy, rgtk and lindsey. This makes it consistent with the upstream archive: CRAN mirrors will have a current tar.gz file with sources for car, and so will Debian mirrors." Well, if you have strong feelings about renaming the package I'll do it with the next upstream version but I don't really see the point. Best, Philip [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2015/04/msg00048.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/12/msg02332.html
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