[Rd] Title of bundled packages in the library index (PR#1017)

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

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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