Hello, NEWS.rds already is a compressed serialized R object, and news() looks for /usr/share/doc/R-3.1.0/NEWS.rds (not NEWS.rds.bz2). Best regards, Bernd Reproducible: Always
+ 16 Apr 2014; Sébastien Fabbro <bicatali@gentoo.org> R-3.0.1.ebuild, + R-3.0.3.ebuild, R-3.1.0.ebuild: + Do not compress NEWS.rds, bug #507800, thanks Bernd Feige +