Your message dated Wed, 16 Dec 2015 05:20:36 -0600
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has caused the report #808128,
regarding r-cran-readxl: please don't bundle rapidxml
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
author(s) Hadley Wickham <[email protected]>
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Hi Andrew,
On 16 December 2015 at 11:41, Andrew Shadura wrote:
| Package: r-cran-readxl
| Version: 0.1.0-1
| Severity: normal
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| Dear Maintainer,
|
| I have packaged rapidxml as a separate package. Please use that
| instead of bundling its code with your package.
I agree with you on a theoretical level ("hey, wouldn't it be nice") -- but
will not do this from a practial, software-engineering standpoint as it is
more important to have R packages built reliably and identically on all
platforms.
So I will not 'fork' this for Debian and build it differently just here.
This is an upstream issue of _optionally_ relying on system libraries where
present. This can be done, and I helped e.g. Jelmer do just that by using
system libnlopt if it is found. Hence I am passing this on to upstream, and
marking it forwarded. It would be great if you could help, I am afraid I may
not have time for it.
Cheers, Dirk
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| Cheers,
| Andrew
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