[Rd] something wrong in package submission procedure/website

[Uwe Ligges]

On 08.02.2016 16:19, peter dalgaard wrote:
> Quite possibly, I should keep my big mouth shut and let the CRAN'ers answer this, but at face value, you submit a new version and are asked to confirm that problems with the previous version are fixed; isn't that as it should be?

 From a CRAN'ers point of view: Well explained, thanks Peter.

Best,
Uwe


> -pd
>
> On 08 Feb 2016, at 16:10 , Paul Johnson <pauljohn32 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I uploaded new rockchalk_1.8.97.  Then I received email
>> saying that I needed to confirm the submission.  Here's the message.
>>
>> Dear Paul E. Johnson
>> Someone has submitted the package rockchalk to CRAN.
>> You are receiving this email to confirm the submission as the maintainer of
>> this package.
>> To confirm the submission to CRAN, follow or copy & paste the following
>> link into your browser:
>>
>> http://xmpalantir.wu.ac.at/cransubmit/conf_mail.php?code=b95e95eb5317901449ed7d311053bad8
>>
>> If you did not submit the package or do not wish for it to be submitted to
>> CRAN, simply ignore this email
>>
>> Submission Information:
>> Submitter: Paul Johnson <pauljohn at ku.edu>
>> Package: rockchalk
>> Version: 1.8.97
>>
>> Note the email has the correct package version 1.8.97, what I uploaded
>> yesterday.
>>
>> The email points to a webpage where I confirm submission.  The 3rd box
>> there requires me to agree to "I have fixed all probelms shown on the
>> package check page(which links to
>> http://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_rockchalk.html).
>>
>> The problem is that the package check has a report on the PREVIOUS
>> rockchalk 1.8.92, not the one I uploaded yesterday.
>>
>> So none of the beautiful repairs I implemented show up :(
>>
>> pj
>>
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