Re: incorrect Homepage fields in r-cran-* packages?
On 12 November 2022 at 09:12, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| 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.
Exactly correct. Moreover when you go to any package's _CRAN_ as opposed to
upstream source repo you see on the rendered package (here taking digest just
because we had it for so long) at the very bottom
Linking:
Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=digest to
link to this page.
which is how I got to the page even if it then renders as
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/digest/index.html
which is not unlike our BTS or package pages. Now that package (of mine)
lists
URL: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/digest, http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/digest.html
because one _can_ (but is not required) list repo info under URL as
well. Sadly not all CRAN packages do. CRAN precedes git (and svn !!) by
years so DVCS were not a thing and imposing change on 18k packages is hard.
Dirk
| 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
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