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...nt (otherwise partial matching could cause x$Depends to give you x$DependsSplus). The Maintainer: issue would be handled by Maintainer: Joe the Package Writer <jwriter at acmewidgets.com> MaintainerSplus: Acme Support <http://acmewidgets.com> S+'s read.dcf() has an argument, convertSplusLines=TRUE, that one can use to avoid this translation (useful mainly when copying DESCRIPTION files by using write.dcf(read.dcf(oldfile),newfile)). This should not affect how things work in R (unless a package writer had a tag ending with 'Splus') but package writers may find it handy or may...