R devel - Jul 2001 - Title of bundled packages in the library index (PR#1017)

Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson
Version: 1.3.0
OS: Windows Me
Submission from: (NULL) (216.175.122.171)


I realized that the title of packages in the library index when they are in a
bundle is the title of the bundle and not the package. 

It looks like the TITLE file, which apparently is used for generating the
library index, takes the value of the bundle's title and not the
package's
title. I played around with the DESCRIPTION file (the bundle's DESCRIPTION
and
the package's DESCRIPTION.in files concatenated), and found that the TITLE
file
takes value of the *last* Title field, which happens to be the Title field of
the bundle.

Is this a bug in how the TITLE file is generated or how the DESCRIPTION file is
build?

My generated DESCRIPTION file looks like this:

Package: myPackage
Version: 0.1
Date: 2001/07/05
Title: The myBundle bundle - myPackage
Author: Henrik Bengtsson
Maintainer: Henrik Bengtsson
Description: Bla bla bla...
License: GPL version 2 or newer
URL: http://www.braju.com/R/


Bundle: myBundle
Version: 0.6
Date: 2001/06/28
Title: The myBundle bundle
Author: Henrik Bengtsson
Maintainer: Henrik Bengtsson
Description: Bla bla bla...
License: GPL version 2 or newer
URL: http://www.braju.com/R/

>R.version
platform i386-pc-mingw32
arch     x86
os       Win32
system   x86, Win32
status
major    1
minor    3.0
year     2001
month    06
day      22
language R


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On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 henrikb@braju.com wrote:
> Full_Name: Henrik Bengtsson
> Version: 1.3.0
> OS: Windows Me
> Submission from: (NULL) (216.175.122.171)
>
>
> I realized that the title of packages in the library index when they are in
a
> bundle is the title of the bundle and not the package.
>
> It looks like the TITLE file, which apparently is used for generating the
> library index, takes the value of the bundle's title and not the
package's
> title. I played around with the DESCRIPTION file (the bundle's
DESCRIPTION and
> the package's DESCRIPTION.in files concatenated), and found that the
TITLE file
> takes value of the *last* Title field, which happens to be the Title field
of
> the bundle.
>
> Is this a bug in how the TITLE file is generated or how the DESCRIPTION
file is
> build?
Neither.  Bundles do not have Title nor Description fields, but
BundleDescription fields. In short, the bug is in your bundle.

Look harder at the example in R-exts, or read

  The Title field should give a short description of the package and not
  have any continuation lines.

Note: `the package'.

> My generated DESCRIPTION file looks like this:
>
> Package: myPackage
> Version: 0.1
> Date: 2001/07/05
> Title: The myBundle bundle - myPackage
> Author: Henrik Bengtsson
> Maintainer: Henrik Bengtsson
> Description: Bla bla bla...
> License: GPL version 2 or newer
> URL: http://www.braju.com/R/
>
>
> Bundle: myBundle
> Version: 0.6
> Date: 2001/06/28
> Title: The myBundle bundle
> Author: Henrik Bengtsson
> Maintainer: Henrik Bengtsson
> Description: Bla bla bla...
> License: GPL version 2 or newer
> URL: http://www.braju.com/R/
>
>
> >R.version
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> arch     x86
> os       Win32
> system   x86, Win32
> status
> major    1
> minor    3.0
> year     2001
> month    06
> day      22
> language R
>
>
>
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