Hi, I worked around the missing variables in the r-bioc-biocparallel code by adding
debRreposname := $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | awk '/^Source:/ {print $$2}' | sed 's/r-\([a-z]\+\)-.*/\1/') awkString := "'/^(Package|Bundle):/ {print $$2 }'" cranNameOrig := $(shell awk "$(awkString)" DESCRIPTION) cranName := $(shell echo "$(cranNameOrig)" | tr A-Z a-z) package := r-$(debRreposname)-$(cranName) debRdir := usr/lib/R/site-library debRlib := $(CURDIR)/debian/$(package)/$(debRdir) to debian/rules. Please note that the calculation of debRreposname would be an enhancement over r-cran.mk since formerly you needed to specify debRreposname if it was different from the default cran. Please also note that I skipped some "if-else" statements to simplify things - it would be safer to copy the code from r-cran.mk (and add debRreposname code if you agree that this is more elegant). BTW, I could even imagine that this kind of dh_fixperms becomes unneeded at all since it makes probably sense to chmod -x all *.R files in the package. What do you think? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de