There are currently over 400 R packages in Fedora's repositories, many of them with slightly different interpretations of the [ https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/R/ R Packaging Guidelines], which contain almost no automations. As a result, different packages implement different techniques for dealing with the various quirks derived from such guidelines. With this proposal, we aim at automation, reliability and simplicity via [ https://github.com/rpm-software-management/R-rpm-macros/pull/2 newly developed RPM macros], placing R packaging on the same level as other software stacks.

• Change proposal
• devel-announce post
• Discourse discussion
• Owners: @Iñaki Úcar

Owners, do not implement this work until the FESCo vote has explicitly ended.
The Fedora Program Manager will create a tracking bug in Bugzilla for this Change, which is your indication to proceed. See the FESCo ticket policy and the Changes policy for more information.

REMINDER: This ticket is for FESCo members to vote on the proposal. Further discussion should happen in the Discourse discussion linked above. Additional discussion may happen on the Fedora Devel mailing list.