Andreas Tille: > Package: debhelper > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > the package dh-r contains a script dh-make-R which creates a debian/ > dir. This script calls an R module which contains: > > use base 'Debian::Debhelper::Buildsystem'; > > Since debhelper 11.2 I get: > > $ dh-make-R > [...] > > > I went versions from snapshot.d.o down to 11.1.6 which works nicely and > does not show this error. Could you please revert the change from > debhelper 11.1.6 to 11.2 which makes the existence of debian/control > required? > > Thanks a lot for maintaining debhelper > > Andreas. > > > [...] Hi Andreas,
I am sorry to hear that debhelper/11.2 broke dh-make-R. It is not going to be trivial as trivial as I would like to "undo" this issue on the debhelper side. I would basically have to revert the support for "cmake+ninja" (etc.) or lock debhelper into never using compat at load/"compile" time of the Buildsystem class hierarchy (which will require some needlessly complicated tricks and I fear it will grow unwieldy over time). I have then analysed dh-make-R and it turns out that dh-make-R (and dh-update-R) only needs the "parse_depends" function from "Debian::Debhelper::Buildsystem::R". Said function seems like it can easily be extracted into a separate Perl package and imported from there into dh-make-R, dh-update-R and "Debian::Debhelper::Buildsystem::R". * Would this be an option for you? This would avoid hacks on my side and make dh-make-R + dh-update-R less sensitive to "unrelated" changes to the Debhelper buildsystem ABI. Thanks, ~Niels PS: The "use Debian::Debhelper::Buildsystem::R qw(parse_deps)" line in dh-make-R and dh-update-R appear to reference a non-existing an unused parse_deps instead of parse_depends.
