Re: unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales

2013-08-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Faheem, On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 12:24:23PM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > >One could consider adding systematically the magic tilde to the > >version numbers passed to ${R:Depends}, but at that point, I think > >that it is even better to implement a versionned R API number. > > A versioned R API

Re: unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales

2013-08-10 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 03:21:36PM +0530, Faheem Mitha a écrit : When I try to install r-cran-scales in unstable, I get root@orwell:/home/faheem# apt-get install r-cran-scales [snip] The following packages have unmet dependencies: r-cran-scal

Re: unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 03:21:36PM +0530, Faheem Mitha a écrit : > > When I try to install r-cran-scales in unstable, I get > > root@orwell:/home/faheem# apt-get install r-cran-scales > > [snip] > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > r-cran-scales : Depends: r-base-core (>= 3.0.

Re: unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales

2013-08-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Benjamin Eikel wrote: Hello Faheem, Am Freitag, 9. August 2013, 15:21:36 schrieb Faheem Mitha: Hi, When I try to install r-cran-scales in unstable, I get I think that this behavior is not special to r-cran-scales. Many other packages use ${R:Depends}, too (e.g., r-cran-

Re: unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales

2013-08-09 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 12:56:59PM +0200, Benjamin Eikel wrote: > Hello Faheem, > > Am Freitag, 9. August 2013, 15:21:36 schrieb Faheem Mitha: > > Hi, > > > > When I try to install r-cran-scales in unstable, I get > > I think that this behavior is not special to r-cran-scales. Many other >

Re: unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales

2013-08-09 Thread Benjamin Eikel
Hello Faheem, Am Freitag, 9. August 2013, 15:21:36 schrieb Faheem Mitha: > Hi, > > When I try to install r-cran-scales in unstable, I get I think that this behavior is not special to r-cran-scales. Many other packages use ${R:Depends}, too (e.g., r-cran-plyr, r-cran-reshape, r-cran- rsqlite, r-

unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales

2013-08-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, When I try to install r-cran-scales in unstable, I get root@orwell:/home/faheem# apt-get install r-cran-scales [snip] The following packages have unmet dependencies: r-cran-scales : Depends: r-base-core (>= 3.0.1-3) but 3.0.1-3~wheezycran3.0 is to be installed E: Unable to correct probl