Package: r-cran-knitr Version: 1.28+dfsg-2 Severity: minor User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu groovy
Dear maintainers, As part of the R 4.0 transition in Ubuntu, I've noticed that r-cran-knitr has a transitive dependency on nodejs via node-highlight.js. This was noticed because previously a buggy package that had a wrong Provides: nodejs in the archive was built on riscv64, allowing various packages which depended on but did not actually require nodejs to build; but this has now been fixed, which means that since there is no nodejs package on riscv64 due to bootstrapping, a certain chunk of the R packages are not rebuildable on riscv64. I wonder if r-cran-knitr really requires this javascript package at runtime for its functionality, or if perhaps this should be made a Recommends instead? Having unnecessary dependencies between packages implemented in different non-"core" languages is certainly a challenge for bootstrapping of new ports. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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