"IU" == Iñaki Ucar iucar@fedoraproject.org writes:
IU> This URL format is not recommended by CRAN, but more importantly, IU> the Source0 format does not work anymore, as [1] noted, when a new IU> version is released. However, there is an immutable format IU> available, as [2] pointed out. So my proposal is to use always the IU> following lines instead:
IU> URL: https://cran.r-project.org/package=%%7Bpackname%7D IU> Source0: %{url}&version=%{version}
That's good to know. We should consider an %r_source macro similar to the existing %pypi_source macro which is used for python packages. See: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Python/#_source_fi...
I would be happy to write it, but I don't enough about R packaging to know how uniformly the tags you mention above (%packname, specifically) are adhered to in the current packaging set.
IU> which are both shorter and immutable, and I propose to add this to IU> the R packaging guidelines too.
Well you should certainly open a ticket with the packaging committee if you wish to propose changes to the packaging guidelines. https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/
You can even send a pull request.
IU> If we agree on this, is there any easy way to request a system-wide IU> change like that to all existing packages?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mass_package_changes
- J<