On 16.09.2013 01:04, Ben Bolker wrote:
Uwe Ligges <ligges <at> statistik.tu-dortmund.de> writes:
Setting
BuildVignettes: false
is fine if it is possible to build the vignettes, and the latter is
checked in CRAN incoming checks (but not the daily checks).
Uwe Ligges
Hmmm. I was told by the CRAN maintainers on Aug 7 that
CRAN> "FOSS licence with BuildVignettes: false" is not a false positive,
CRAN> is fixable, and is mentioned at
CRAN> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-exts.html#
CRAN> The-DESCRIPTION-file as not to be used in an FOSS package.
(I had said in my previous e-mail to CRAN that all NOTEs were
false positives, minor or not fixable.) Admittedly this e-mail
nowhere said explicitly "you must fix this or we will not accept
it for CRAN", but that was certainly the impression I got.
TFM says
R-exts> [BuildVignettes: false] should only be used exceptionally, for
R-exts> example if the PDFs include large figures which are not part of the
R-exts> package sources (and hence only in packages which do not have an
R-exts> Open Source license).
So either I'm confused (always a possibility!) or it seems
there are some inconsistencies here ...
Yes, and I could see really rare circumstances where vignette building
takes a long time and the maintainer decides not to build vignettes as
part of the daily checks.
If there were no possible (but typically rather rare) exceptions, this
would be at least a Warning.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
On 15.09.2013 22:13, Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) wrote:
Dear All,
I have been checking the metafor package against R-devel.
R CMD check --as-cran metafor
yields one note:
FOSS licence with BuildVignettes: false
Yes, I have 'BuildVignettes: FALSE' in my DESCRIPTION file.
I see at http://developer.r-project.org/blosxom.cgi/R-devel/NEWS:
Tue, 25 Jun 2013
CHANGES IN R-devel UTILITIES
'R CMD check --as-cran' warns about a false value
of the 'DESCRIPTION' field 'BuildVignettes' for Open
Source packages, and ignores it (as an Open Source package
needs to have complete sources for its vignettes).
My questions are:
1) Is this going to be an issue if I submit a new
version of the metafor package to CRAN right now?
2) And if the answer to 1 is "Not right now": Is this going
to become an issue in the future? In other words, is
it the goal to only allow packages with BuildVignettes=true
if they have an FOSS license at some point in
the future?
Best,
Wolfgang
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