[bug#30885] Submitting Patch File for r-catdap Package Description for CRAN package

[Sahithi Yarlagadda]

Hi

I resending the patch. Bear with my mistakes, im learning things.
Hopefully Ill make sure my next patch would be perfect.


On Wednesday 21 March 2018 12:06 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Hi Sahithi,
>
> thanks for the patch!
>
>> +
>> +(define-public r-catdap
>> +  (package
>> +    (name "r-catdap")
>> +    (version "1.3.4")
>> +    (source
>> +     (origin
>> +       (method url-fetch)
>> +       (uri (cran-uri "catdap" version))
>> +       (sha256
>> +        (base32
>> +         "0i877l61f6c75pczi235rzci67w29zv1d7z5zn5p5ymndclvlpl2"))))
>> +    (build-system r-build-system)
>> +    (home-page "https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/catdap/";)
>> +    (synopsis "Categorical data analysis program package")
>> +    (description
>> +     "Categorical data analysis by AIC.  The methodology is described in
>> +Sakamoto (1992) @url{https://www.springer.com/in/book/9780792314295}";)
> Please use full sentences in the description.  In this case I went to
> the home page and downloaded the reference manual, which contains this
> sentence:
>
>     “This package provides functions for analyzing multivariate
>      data. Dependencies of the distribution of specified variable
>      (response variable) to other variables (explanatory variables) are
>      derived and evaluated by AIC (Akaike Information Criterion).”
>
> This is a better description based on that sentence:
>
>     This package provides functions for analyzing multivariate data.
>     Dependencies of the distribution of the specified variable (response
>     variable) to other variables (explanatory variables) are derived and
>     evaluated by the @dfn{Akaike Information Criterion} (AIC).
>
> address@hidden is used for definitions.
>
>> +    ;; Any GPL version.
>> +    (license license:gpl2+)))
> The comment is incorrect.  The home page says:
>
>     License:  GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
>
> This means it is actually GPLv2+.
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> Please don’t add so many empty lines at the end :)
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> Could you please send an updated patch as a reply to this message?
>
> --
> Ricardo
>
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Regards
Sahithi

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