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On Aug 5, 2013 6:16 AM, "Andreas Tille" <<a href="mailto:tille@debian.org">tille@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi Paul,<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 12:37:17AM +0000, Paul Richards Tagliamonte wrote:<br>
> > sysdata.rda appears to be in your source, which is a dataset compressed<br>
> > into pickled R objects.<br>
> ><br>
> > Can you assure me of one of two things:<br>
> ><br>
> > 1. that this data is *not* used anywhere in the binary packages<br>
> > (and is not shipped)<br>
><br>
> It is not shipped in the binary package.<br>
><br>
> > and *can* be rebuilt from *just* the contents<br>
> > of the package and that it is *not* shipped.<br>
><br>
> It was previously said that it can be reprocuced with R.</p>
<p dir="ltr">(On my phone, excuse unsigned mail)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Which files generate this?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Think about jpegs. If it were a photo, clearly the jpg is the best we can do, but if an image is created from SVG, packages should be shipping that too.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Where did the data come from? Was.this data lovingly hand created and put in the pickle, or was that table generated by an R script?</p>
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> > 2. that you rebuild this at build-time, and that is included.<br>
><br>
> Since it is not shipped it is not rebuild. However, some other files<br>
> (sysdata.rdb and sysdata.rdx) are created from sysdata.rda. These are<br>
> all different binary representations of the same data which could be<br>
> converted to human readable data with R. This is quite typical for R<br>
> packages.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Which could be fine in some cases I think.</p>
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> > I see two sysdata files that are getting installed.<br>
><br>
> Yes, these are derived from sysdata.rda.</p>
<p dir="ltr">OK, so what created the data in there?</p>
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> > If these are coming from this binary file, please respond asking<br>
> > for a REJECT and re-upload this package fixing the situation<br>
><br>
> As Charles said this is a typical thing for R packages. If you want<br>
> to know how many packages are shipping *.rda files you can try<br>
><br>
> $ apt-file --architecture source search ".rda" | sed 's/: .*$//' | uniq | wc -l<br>
> 68<br>
><br>
> Some of these might be in non-free but not because of this reason.<br>
> If you want a list only from main<br>
><br>
> sudo apt-file --architecture source --sources-list sources.list_without_non-free+contrib update<br>
><br>
> and check again.<br>
><br>
> Kind regards an thanks for working on ftpmaster tasks<br>
><br>
> Andreas.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> <a href="http://fam-tille.de">http://fam-tille.de</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers,<br>
Paul<br>
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