The snow source package has been incorrectly superseeded

[Cesare Tirabassi]

Binary package hint: snow

Apparently (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=505309) the snow source package in Debian (which used to produce the r-cran-snow binary package) has incorrectly been superseed by another source package with the same name (producing the snow binary package).
For Ubuntu this means that we have now an r-cran-snow binary package which is not built anymore from source (http://people.ubuntu.com/%7Eubuntu-archive/NBS/r-cran-snow) and a new snow binary package.
We should probably wait and follow the solution adopted by Debian (I guess a re-upload of the former snow package with a superseeding version number and a re-upload of the latter snow package with a different source name).

[Cesare Tirabassi (norsetto)]

Can we please sync snow (1:0.3.3-2) from Debian unstable (main)?
I guess this will leave a snow binary package not built anymore from source which would have to be manually overridden.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

[Updating] snow (20081111-1 [Ubuntu] < 1:0.3.3-2 [Debian])
 * Trying to add snow...
  - <snow_0.3.3-2.dsc: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
  - <snow_0.3.3.orig.tar.gz: already in distro - downloading from librarian>
  - <snow_0.3.3-2.diff.gz: downloading from http://ftp.debian.org/debian/>
I: snow [universe] -> r-cran-snow_0.3.3-1 [universe].