On 4 July 2023 at 16:00, Graham Inggs wrote: | Source: r-base | Version: 4.3.1-1 | Tags: patch | | Hi Maintainer | | r-base has a build-dependency, and r-base-dev has a dependency, on the | ancient libpcre3-dev package. I believe these are no longer required | since the dependencies on the (confusingly) newer libpcre2-dev are | already present, and a test rebuild of r-base with libpcre3-dev | dropped still shows the following lines in its build log: | | checking for pcre2.h... yes | checking for pcre2_compile_8 in -lpcre2-8... yes | checking if PCRE2 has Unicode support... yes | checking whether PCRE support suffices... yes | | The maintainer of both PCRE packages is trying to get rid of pcre3 | during the trixie development cycle [1]. Please consider applying the | attached patch in a future upload of r-base.
Happy to help. That was always very confusing. Updated my debian/control. Dirk -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
