R CMD INSTALL is sensitive to trailing newlines in DESCRIPTION.in
Henrik Bengtsson writes:
Hi, with R v1.7.1 (=I don't recall I saw it before) I noticed that R CMD INSTALL sometimes generates nonsense information, e.g. "Bundle: NA", even if there was a correct DESCRIPTION file too. I turns out that it happens when a DESCRIPTION.in has empty lines at the end. I have observed this behavior on both Sun Solaris 9 and Windows XP Pro (but here I am using unsupported Cygwin w/ perl).
Here is a reproducible example:
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Should I report this is as a bug?
No, as I am about to commit a fix to the Unix INSTALL script :-) Windows maintainers: I suspect that src/gnuwin32/fixed/dobundle.pl needs a similar change, perhaps something like next if (/^ *$/); in the loop writing the DESCRIPTION file. -k