Package: dh-r Version: 20230121 Severity: normal dh-r adds "r-base-core (>= $VERSION)" in Depends, where VERSION is the one which was used at build time.
Since dh-r already adds pseudo-packages in Depends that are meant to track ABI changes (r-api-*, r-graphics-engine-*), adding such a versioned depends on r-base-core is not needed in general, and actually creates a unnecessarily strict restriction. For example, if the version in r-base is more recent in unstable than in testing, and assuming that the ABI has not changed between those two versions, then a R addon built in unstable won’t be able to migrate to testing before r-base does, while there is no reason to forbid this. In particular, this can be a problem during freeze (see the discussion in #1035428 for an instance of this). Fixing this issue is probably just a matter of modifying the following line: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/dh-r/-/blob/master/dh/R.pm#L272 See also the discussion in #1040001. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://www.debian.org
