[Rd] recent changes to r-devel with package date checking?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 28 March 2026 at 10:55, Simon Urbanek wrote:
| On related topic on the other side: what we could really do is have --build-timestamp try to parse the value and always store the ISO UTC form to make sure that field is always valid (and warn/error if it is not valid), but of course that only works for the future.

This came in while I concurrently wrote a longer reply -- that, inter alia,
included a reference to the one-line lookup on the debian/changelog timestamp
via the (Perl-based) dh-r plugin R.pm. There is no R code involved there
anyway, but Perl would of course have similar time parsing abilities. If
someone wants to patch that, the dh-r authors will likely take it. Otherwise
it may be easier in to pick that up R's tools package.

Dirk

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