2016-10-07 16:25 GMT+02:00 Gordon Ball <[email protected]>: > On 07/10/16 15:33, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> >> On 7 October 2016 at 15:09, Andreas Tille wrote: >> | I'm fine with these changes. If you want to let this propagate to all >> | R+BioConductor packages probably a lintian warning makes sense. May be >> >> Really? We don't have an officially sanctioned policy that _mandates_ this. >> >> We are about giving people options. > > In the CRAN case at least, it is what the CRAN page suggests as the > canonical URL if you use a different variant, so it's probably good > practice - but the correct homepage link is a fairly trivial issue to > get too prescriptive about. >
There is the same thing on the Bioconductor page: "Canonical url for use in publications, etc., will always redirect to current release version (or devel if package is not in release yet)." I have already pushed a small change in lintian to tag the uncanonical homepage of CRAN [1]. Lintian displays only an info tag and not a warning tag, so you can ignore it. The patch for tag the uncanonical homepage of Bioconductor is on the BTS. [1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/homepage-for-cran-package-not-canonical.html
