Hi Andreas, * Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> [2025-03-01 22:39]:
if you can provide a patch / MR I'm fine to apply it but currently I have no more free spoons to work on this.
The real question here is how to solve #1089197, i.e. how to encode the package relationships without depending on the apt cache (grep-aptavail or rmadison or anything else that is network related). I have no experience with R packages so I would need some input here. Possible ways I see are:
1. Don't add relations automatically and let the maintainer do it. 2. Always add all package names from the DISCRIPTION file to Suggest:From my understanding this would need some mapping from the R package name to the Debian package name and maybe a rename of the Debian packages to simplify the mapping.
3. Add the list of R package in Debian to dh-r and use it to convert the package name. Note that this needs to be updated whenever a R packages is added or removed in Debian. (This is what dh-python has, afair).
Cheers Jochen
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