Bug#748847: ITP: r-cran-expm -- GNU R Computation of the matrix exponential and related quantities

[Andreas Tille]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>

* Package name    : r-cran-expm
  Version         : 0.99-1.1
  Upstream Author : Martin Maechler and others
* URL             : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/expm/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: R
  Description     : GNU R Computation of the matrix exponential and related quantities
 The matrix exponential GNU R package enables computation of the matrix
 exponential and related quantities.


Remark: This package is a new dependency for r-cran-msm and required to
upgrade.  It is maintained by the Debian Science team at

  svn://anonscm.debian.org/debian-science/packages/R/r-cran-expm/trunk/

Regarding the license I added the following comment to debian/copyright:

Comment: The CRAN policy is to encourage package authors to no  include
 the license text "to save space".  We as in Debian are aware that this
 is illegal strictly speaking but it seems we will not solve this issue
 package wise with every single package author.  The better solution
 would be to form an Debian R team which should discuss this with CRAN
 maintainers in general.