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

[Paul R. Tagliamonte]

On Aug 5, 2013 6:16 AM, "Andreas Tille" <tille at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 12:37:17AM +0000, Paul Richards Tagliamonte wrote:
> > sysdata.rda appears to be in your source, which is a dataset compressed
> > into pickled R objects.
> >
> > Can you assure me of one of two things:
> >
> >   1. that this data is *not* used anywhere in the binary packages
> >      (and is not shipped)
>
> It is not shipped in the binary package.
>
> > and *can* be rebuilt from *just* the contents
> >      of the package and that it is *not* shipped.
>
> It was previously said that it can be reprocuced with R.

(On my phone, excuse unsigned mail)

Which files generate this?

Think about jpegs. If it were a photo, clearly the jpg is the best we can
do, but if an image is created from SVG, packages should be shipping that
too.

Where did the data come from? Was.this data lovingly hand created and put
in the pickle, or was that table generated by an R script?

>
> >   2. that you rebuild this at build-time, and that is included.
>
> Since it is not shipped it is not rebuild.  However, some other files
> (sysdata.rdb and sysdata.rdx) are created from sysdata.rda.  These are
> all different binary representations of the same data which could be
> converted to human readable data with R.  This is quite typical for R
> packages.

Which could be fine in some cases I think.

>
> > I see two sysdata files that are getting installed.
>
> Yes, these are derived from sysdata.rda.

OK, so what created the data in there?

>
> > If these are coming from this binary file, please respond asking
> > for a REJECT and re-upload this package fixing the situation
>
> As Charles said this is a typical thing for R packages.  If you want
> to know how many packages are shipping *.rda files you can try
>
> $ apt-file --architecture source search ".rda" | sed 's/: .*$//' | uniq |
wc -l
> 68
>
> Some of these might be in non-free but not because of this reason.
> If you want a list only from main
>
>   sudo apt-file --architecture source --sources-list
sources.list_without_non-free+contrib update
>
> and check again.
>
> Kind regards an thanks for working on ftpmaster tasks
>
>      Andreas.
>
> --
> http://fam-tille.de

Cheers,
  Paul
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