r36486 - in /packages/R/r-cran-xtable/trunk/debian: ./ README.Debian changelog control copyright rules

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:46:30AM -0000, plessy at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
> Author: plessy
> Date: Tue May 18 00:46:29 2010
> New Revision: 36486
> 
> URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-science/?sc=1&rev=36486
> Log:
> Uploaded the updated package prepared by Andreas, after adding a couple of modifications.

Great!  Thanks.
 
> +  * Added notes to explain how this package is tested (debian/README.Debian).

While this is interesting I'm afraid I might simply forget to do this
procedure (loading the lib into R) for the next uploads (because I never
have heard about problems with this).  So I wonder whether we should
claim to have done a test which we finally can not guarantee to be
really done.

> Modified: packages/R/r-cran-xtable/trunk/debian/copyright
> URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-science/packages/R/r-cran-xtable/trunk/debian/copyright?rev=36486&op=diff
> ==============================================================================
> --- packages/R/r-cran-xtable/trunk/debian/copyright (original)
> +++ packages/R/r-cran-xtable/trunk/debian/copyright Tue May 18 00:46:29 2010
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>  Format-Specification: http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat
>  Upstream-Name: xtable
>  Upstream-Maintainer: David B. Dahl <dahl at stat.tamu.edu>
> -Upstream-Source: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/
> +Upstream-Source: http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/xtable_1.5-6.tar.gz

Perhaps we should find a common agreement about the Upstream-Source
field: From a maintenance point of view it makes sense to not touch to
many files in the debian/ directory and thus I try to avoid touching
debian/copyright for every new version.  I admit that the download
directory contains a lot of files and thus just specifying the directory
is somehow indirect.  But do we really win so much when specifying the
exact file by having at the same time the risk to have an incorrect
copyright file if a maintainer forgets to update this field.  I'm
definitely a candidate for forgetting this.

Kind regards and thanks for the upload

     Andreas.

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