Howdy,

On 24 January 2021 at 18:01, Graham Inggs wrote:
| Hi Andreas
| 
| On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 at 09:55, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote:
| > dh-r injects versioned dependencies if this is specified in the
| > DESCRIPTION file of an r-* package.  If this is not specified we
| > need to add this manually (which I can do - but for sure the
| > automatic solution would be more convenient.
| 
| I don't think adding it manually would work.  I would need to be
| something that works with a binNMU, maybe something like our
| 'r-api-4.0' mechanism, calling it for example 'r-matrix-1.3-2', but
| this may be overkill.  Let's see how many packages are affected before
| we make any changes.

Seconded.

Worst case we could add a 'r-matrix-1.3' but I'd rather avoid it. Maybe the
Debian maintainer(s) for the *TMB talk to their upstream and ask about the
context?  I don't those folks, it is from what I can tell a fairly large
research group...

Best, Dirk

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