Package: r-base-dev Version: 2.0.1-2 Severity: normal Starting with version 0.2.5 type-handling does not provide architecture specific packages anymore. The relevant changelog entry is:
* Remove old "Provides:" functionality, which has been deprecated for several versions now. Set Architecture: all in debian/control.in. The result is that both g77 and f2c have to be installed on all architectures to satisfy r-base-dev's dependencies, while one of these packages is not needed. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.10 Locale: LANG=C, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages r-base-dev depends on: ii build-essential 10.1 informational list of build-essent ii g++ 4:3.3.5-1 The GNU C++ compiler ii g77 4:3.3.5-1 The GNU Fortran 77 compiler ii gcc 4:3.3.5-1 The GNU C compiler ii libbz2-dev 1.0.2-5 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libjpeg62-dev 6b-9 Development files for the IJG JPEG ii libncurses5-dev 5.4-4 Developer's libraries and docs for ii libpcre3-dev 5.0-1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi ii libpng12-dev 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - development ii libreadline5-dev 5.0-10 GNU readline and history libraries ii r-base-core 2.0.1-2 GNU R core of statistical computin ii refblas3-dev [libblas-3.so] 1.2-6 Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines 3 ii type-handling [not+m68k] 0.2.4 dpkg architecture generation scrip ii zlib1g-dev 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - development -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]