Charles, On 26 June 2009 at 19:32, Charles Plessy wrote: | (Copy for information sent to [email protected].) | | Dear lintian maintainers, | | many packages of the gnu-r section use a one-liner CDBS debian/rules file: | | include /usr/share/R/debian/r-cran.mk | | This will then include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/debhelper.mk, but since lintian | does not see it in debian/rules, it throws an error of the | ‘build-depends-without-arch-dep’ type for debhelper, cdbs, and r-base-dev (that | provides /usr/share/R/debian/r-cran.mk).
At the risk of asking a silly question: isn't that addressed by Build-Depends vs Build-Depends-Indep? e...@ron:~/src/debian/CRAN$ grep -h ^Build-Depends-Indep */debian/control | head -5 Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 4.1.0), r-base-dev (>> 2.3.0), cdbs Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 4.1.0), r-base-dev (>= 2.8.1), cdbs Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 4.1.0), r-base-dev (>= 2.9.0), cdbs Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 4.1.0), r-base-dev (>= 2.9.0), cdbs Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>> 4.1.0), r-base-dev (>= 2.9.0), cdbs, r-cran-lattice (>= 0.10.11), r-cran-vr, r-cran-colorspace e...@ron:~/src/debian/CRAN$ Granted, I have more packages with Build-Depends: as they produce a binary, but if I understand the problem, your bugreport can be taken care of at your end. But then maybe I just misunderstand. If so, just set me straight :) Dirk, who also maintains several dozen r-cran-* packages | Because it implies three dependancies that can be in any order, I did not | figure out how to add a proper entry in our @GLOBAL_CLEAN_DEPENDS to solve that | problem… | | Have a nice day, | | -- Charles Plessy, Debian Med packaging team. | | -- System Information: | Debian Release: 5.0 | APT prefers unstable | APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') | Architecture: powerpc (ppc64) | | Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-powerpc64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) | Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) | Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash | | Versions of packages lintian depends on: | ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina | ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc | ii dpkg-dev 1.14.25 Debian package development tools | ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic" | ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities | ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf | ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.22+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg | ii libipc-run-perl 0.80-2 Perl module for running processes | ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output | ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl | ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin | ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager | ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-22 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction | | lintian recommends no packages. | | Versions of packages lintian suggests: | pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) | ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module | ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager | | -- no debconf information | | -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]

