Hi Andreas, [ Lucky I found this -- procmail sticks this into the debian-science folder which I do not visit as often as my normal inbox ... ]
On 18 August 2016 at 08:52, Andreas Tille wrote: | Hi Dirk, | | I've got a request to install Cairo[1] which from the description sounds | pretty similar to your package r-cran-cairodevice from[2]. Both R | packages seem to be maintained. Could you explain the difference and | do you think its sensible to package Cairo in addition? Yes, see https://cloud.r-project.org/package=Cairo https://cloud.r-project.org/package=cairoDevice These are simply two similar and somewhat overlapping packages. CRAN is not unlike Debian in that such feature overlap is not policed against (and that is a good thing). As I recall, Cairo is newer. I once needed cairoDevice so I packaged it -- if you now have a rev.dep on Cairo you will have to package that. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
