On 9 April 2013 at 17:22, Julian Gilbey wrote:
| On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 12:58:39PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
| > This can be done with the attached patch, that I tested locally.
|
| One tiny fix to the patch is needed (presumably a typo):
|
| > -rversion := $(shell dpkg-query -W -f='$${Version}' r-base-dev)
| > +rAPIversion := $(shell dpkg-query -W -f='$${Provides}' r-base-core
| grep -o 'r-api.[^,]')
|
| This grep command should be grep -o 'r-api[^,]*' (with a '*' and
| perhaps no '.') so that r-api-3a will be returned as r-api-3a and not
| r-api-3 as needed.
|
| Other than that, I fully support the need for this patch, for the
| reasons given in the bug report.
|
| On the related subject of debian-r.debian.net (which I had been
| unaware of), it is not clear from the packages which version of R they
As with previous 'cran2deb' efforts: always the most current one in the
distro flavour. So testing for testing (when Charles and I did cran2deb).
| are built against, and therefore whether they will work on R 2.14 or
| on R 3.0; this would solve that problem entirely (assuming that the
| packages are then built using the appropriate r-api-* dependency).
It really isn't needed as debian-r.debian.net / cran2deb is a huge big fat
binNMU generator (and more, package creator).
| On a side note, I wonder whether it's worth me having my tiny handful
| of r-cran-* packages in Debian at all; as they are more likely to be
It depends on maintainer committement. My 100+ r-cran-* are generally
current, sadly I don't always feel the same about debian-{med,science}.
| updated regularly (and, presumably, automatically) on that site, that
| would be much more useful to people in the long run. So perhaps I
| should just ask for my packages to be removed from testing? Comments
| would be appreciated!
That is a discussion we should have about the possible "moonshoot" of having
the 4400+ CRAN package (or a "reasonable" [ for different definitions of
"reasonable" ]) subset in Debian.
Dirk
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