Hello,
this form [1] is the canonical form of the package URL for any CRAN package, as requested by the R Core team [2]. It is implicitly defined by the name of the package, so it does not have to be defined in the DESCRIPTION file.
Cheers,
Johannes
Am Samstag, 12. November 2022, 07:32:45 CET schrieb Paul Wise:
> Hi all,
>
> I noticed that a lot of r-cran-* packages have [1] in the Homepage
> field of their debian/control file but the URL field in the DESCRIPTION
> file produced by upstream is different, often it is a GitHub URL.
>
> I wonder if this is intentional and if not if this issue should be
> added to lintian and a fixer for it added to lintian-brush/Janitor?
>
> �� 1. https://cran.r-project.org/package=*
[2] https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Specifying-URLs