Bug#880875: please rename source package to r-cran-scatterplot3d

[Philip Rinn]

Hi,

On 05.11.2017 at 10:54, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> scatterplot3d is the only CRAN package maintained in Debian Science Team whose
> source package name does not begin with "r-cran".
>
> Please rename the source package to r-cran-scatterplot3d, to facilitate the
> identification of the package when making searches on source package names, and
> also for consistency.

is it really worth the hassle? Carrying a transitional package around, going
through new again, etc.? There are packages around outside Debian Science which
doesn't use r-*-<PACKAGENAME> as source package name. To identify R packages you
have to look for (Build-)Dependencies anyway as some not-only-R-packages build
binary R packages ... and there is still the section "gnu-r" to identify them -
well, sadly not really [1].

I'd rather ask why don't the other R packages in Debian Sciences follow the
recommendation in the "Debian R Policy"[2] section 2.1?

"The Debian source package can in most cases retain the <Rpackage> name. E.g., for
the examples above one could use car, affy, rgtk and lindsey. This makes it
consistent with the upstream archive: CRAN mirrors will have a current tar.gz file
with sources for car, and so will Debian mirrors."


Well, if you have strong feelings about renaming the package I'll do it with the
next upstream version but I don't really see the point.

Best,
Philip


[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2015/04/msg00048.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/12/msg02332.html

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