On 15 June 2018 at 23:58, Andreas Tille wrote: | Hi Dirk, | | is there any reason why dh-r is needed as Build-Depends for r-base?
That may be an error / oversight / something created when we moved from cdbs. I will fix it. | I'm just wondering whether anything of dh-r is really used. Probably not. We needed to depends on cdbs because r-cran.mk used it, and this looks like it was a semiautomatic conversion -- which we may not need. | If yes we possibly need to modularise dh-r in a way that only a | part is used by r-base. | | What do you think? I will make the change. There will be R 3.5.1 in two weeks, so it will propagate quickly enough. I think we may not need an extra upload now. Thanks for the heads-up. Dirk | Kind regards | | Andreas. | | On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 09:20:34PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: | > Package: dh-r | > Version: 20180613 | > Severity: important | > | > Hello Debian R Packages Maintainers, | > | > There is a circular dependency between dh-r and r-base-dev: | > | > dh-r: Depends: r-base-dev | > r-base-dev: Depends: dh-r | > | > Circular dependencies are known to cause problems | > during upgrade between stable releases, so we should try to avoid them. | > | > Cheers, | > -- | > Bill. <[email protected]> | > | > Imagine a large red swirl here. | > | > _______________________________________________ | > R-pkg-team mailing list | > [email protected] | > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r-pkg-team | | -- | http://fam-tille.de -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
