Package: dh-r Severity: important As discussed on the debian-r list in this message https://lists.debian.org/debian-r/2018/04/msg00062.html for R packages with (upstream) 'Priority: recommended' (as in all the package our virtual package r-recommended depends upon), the ${R:Depends} and other variables are not expanded.
I suspect this has to do with the fact that per an old tradition, these packages install into /usr/lib/R/library/ whereas all others install into /usr/lib/R/site-library/ so I suspect a path may not be read correctly. To reproduce, take a package such as cluster from https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-cran-lattice and revert the last commit, or change by hand back the manually added R version and API on this line https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-cran-lattice/blob/master/debian/control#L13 to the previous value of Depends: ${R:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} and note how this resulting package has no R dependency and no r-api-* tag. That is the bug. The old cdbs-based system had no issues, so I do not think that this is caused by the underlying debhelper commands. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
