Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> writes:

> What we have works. Making a change risks having to pick up pieces of
> shrapnel. I don't really have time for that --- I cannot test for every
> random piece of software being present.

I see your point, but am simply asking for more robust handling of one
specific corner case that turned out to be broken.  Adding that one
check would have no effect in any other cases.  Would you rather require
that every single r-* package either build-depend on xauth or
build-conflict on xvfb?

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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
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