On 26 December 2025 at 13:15, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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| On 26 December 2025 at 18:45, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
| | Package: r-cran-car
| | Version: 3.1-3-1
| | Severity: minor
| |
| | Dear Maintainer,
| |
| | The r-cran-car package depends on r-cran-rio. However, the following is
| | seen in the DESCRIPTION file:
| |
| | Imports: abind, Formula, MASS, mgcv, nnet, pbkrtest (>= 0.4-4),
| | quantreg, grDevices, utils, stats, graphics, lme4 (>=
| | 1.1-27.1), nlme, scales
| | Suggests: alr4, boot, coxme, effects, knitr, leaps, lmtest, Matrix,
| | MatrixModels, ordinal, plotrix, mvtnorm, rgl (>= 0.111.3), rio,
| | sandwich, SparseM, survival, survey
| |
| | According to the NEWS file, the rio package has been demoted from Imports
| | to Suggests in the upstream version 3.0-12:
| |
| | Changes to Version 3.0-12
| |
| | o The 'rio` package is now suggested, not required. To use the
| | Import() and Export() functions users may need to install rio using
| | install.packages("rio")
| |
| | Please, remove r-cran-rio from Depends.
|
| Will do.
|
| | One more question: would it be reasonable to add a Suggests field to
| | debian/control that reflects the Suggests field in DESCRIPTION? At least,
| | this is what dh-make-R does when building a package for car from scratch.
|
| It is a catch and mouse game I have found to be tedious in the long
| run. Packages 'car' and 'Rcmdr', both by the late John Fox who passed away
| recently, had a tendency to add new dependencies and suggestions. I emailed a
| few times with John about this, and at some points the penny drops that
| adding a new package to Debian is not "that easy" -- among my 100+ packages
| are easily ten or more added simply because his packages extended their
| dependencies and we needed it.
|
| It is much simpler to set up a build process (outside of Debian proper) that
| just builds all CRAN packages. I have done so with r2u [1] which, for some
| technical reasons, started at / is at Ubuntu. It has shipped over 60 million
| binaries. There is a demand for this: _reliably_ provide all of CRAN, rather
| than a subset of 1200 or 1300 as we do.
I quickly checked 'by hand' which ones we have and added
Suggests: r-cran-boot, r-cran-effects, r-cran-knitr, r-cran-leaps, \
r-cran-lmtest, r-cran-matrix, r-cran-matrixmodels, r-cran-ordinal, \
r-cran-plotrix, r-cran-mvtnorm, r-cran-rgl, r-cran-rio, r-cran-sandwich, \
r-cran-sparsem, r-cran-survival, r-cran-survey
Two were missing: alr4 and coxme. I am not planning to add them.
Thanks for the bug reports, and a Happy 2026!
Dirk
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| Cheers, Dirk
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| [1] https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/
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