Package: rpy
Version: 1.0.3-18
Severity: important

rpy breaks on every version change of R due to it rpy_tools.py
get_R_VERSION using every version digit and this is used to determine
the C extension.

Is R really incompatible in every minor release?

If this is true please add Breaks against R to protect against users
from upgrading to not working configurations.

See these bugs where this happened:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588790
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rpy/+bug/667795
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rpy/+bug/883204

It is also currently the case in unstable due to R py 2.1.40:
python -c "import rpy"

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/rpy.py", line 134, in <module>
    """ % RVERSION)
RuntimeError: No module named _rpy2140

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