FOSS licence with BuildVignettes: false
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 ...
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.
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