[Bug 241081] Review Request: R-widgetTools-1.12.0-2 - Tools to support the construction of tcltk widgets

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Summary: Review Request: R-widgetTools-1.12.0-2 - Tools to support the construction of tcltk widgets


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241081





------- Additional Comments From lxtnow at gmail.com  2007-06-26 15:43 EST -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #3, Xavier)
> > Also, i see no license text or file in this package.
> 
> Are you under the impression that this is mandatory?  If there's a license file
> in the upstream tarball then it has to be included in the package.  If upstream
> includes no license file then the package maintainer certainly doesn't have to
> manufacture one.

surely not, i just pasted a note.
However, there're some packaging draft that talk about the why a license text is
 usefull.
> 
> 
> (In reply to comment #4, Spot)
> > It is possible to put noarch R packages into %{_datadir}/R/library, instead of
> > in %{_libdir}/R/library (where arch-specific R packages should go).
> 
> That's great; do you just do the usual R CMD INSTALL and give the other
> directory?  Does this work for FC6 and F7?
> 
> > I'd argue that the DESCRIPTION is a useful %doc item.
> 
> I certainly agree; rpm -q --info certainly does not give the same information as
> is present in the DESCRIPTION file.  I really don't understand why Xavier would
> make such a comment unless he didn't actually look at what's in the file.

i looked the file, and it's why I commented about that, if you look close, sure
there's some things that dismatch between rpm -q [package-name] --info and
DESCRIPTION are the maintainers, the date of the packaged and the packager, etc. 
AFAIK the maintainer of the package (rpm) which should be mentione is the
fedoraproject (just my guess).
Note that some end-users could be confused "who is who ?" or "what is what ?" 

here is a exmeple output of rpm -q [package_name] --info command:
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$ rpm -q glade2 --info

Name        : glade2                       Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 2.12.1                            Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 5.fc6                         Build Date: Fri 08 Sep 2006 01:03:55
PM AST
Install Date: Thu 05 Jul 2007 12:56:02 PM AST      Build Host:
hs20-bc1-7.build.redhat.com
Group       : Development/Tools             Source RPM: glade2-2.12.1-5.fc6.src.rpm
Size        : 5171445                          License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Tue 03 Oct 2006 09:49:46 PM AST, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL         : http://glade.gnome.org/
Summary     : A GTK+ GUI builder.
Description :
Glade is a free user interface builder for GTK+ and the GNOME GUI
desktop. Glade can produce C source code. Support for C++, Ada95,
Python, and Perl is also available, via external tools which process
the XML interface description files output by GLADE.
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Also, i'm wondering if a lil' packaging guideline for R package could be usefull

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