[Debian-med-packaging] Comments regarding r-cran-munsell_0.4-1_amd64.changes

[Benjamin Eikel]

Am Montag, 5. August 2013, 17:16:33 schrieb Charles Plessy:
> Le Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 08:14:39AM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> > besides the proposed general solution Charles was requesting I wanted to
> > make up my mind about this specific package.  Unfortunately it seems not
> 
> > everything is commited to the Git repository:
> Hi all,
> 
> it looked that Benjamin forgot to push the tags.  In case he does not answer
> quickly, it will be easy to make fresh ones by hand.  In the meantime, you
> can work on the version 0.4-1, which is the one in NEW.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused. I pushed the tags for r-cran-munsell and 
r-cran-scales.

> 
>     git checkout debian/0.4-1
>     git buildpackage -us -uc --git-ignore-branch
> 
> Interestingly, the version 0.4-2 that became available after the upload to
> NEW has a script to generate sysdata.rda: inst/raw/getmunsellmap.R.  That
> script uses another data file, real.dat (in text format).
> 
> I will answer later to Paul on debian-devel (I would like to limit my posts
> on this list to one or two per day), but basically, I think that the
> question of the "prefered form for modification" is quite theroetical when
> it is not known if this file will ever have to be modified (it has never
> been so in the 4 years of history in upstream's Git repository), and when
> it is in a format that is readable and writable with Free tools.
> 
> Cheers,