Hi Jochen, thanks for the patch. You might have read that I will not have time next week but I'll put it on high priority in about 10 days.
Thanks a lot Andreas. Am Fri, Aug 22, 2025 at 09:19:38PM +0200 schrieb Jochen Sprickerhof: > Hi Andreas, > > as discussed in Brest, I have written a patch to dh-make/update-R to hard > code the dependencies: > > https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/dh-r/-/merge_requests/9 > > Note that I don't have any experience with the tooling and only did some > minimal testing so would appreciate feedback. > > Cheers Jochen > > * Jochen Sprickerhof <[email protected]> [2025-03-02 08:36]: > > Hi Andreas, > > > > * Andreas Tille <[email protected]> [2025-03-01 22:39]: > > > if you can provide a patch / MR I'm fine to apply it but currently > > > I have no more free spoons to work on this. > > > > The real question here is how to solve #1089197, i.e. how to encode the > > package relationships without depending on the apt cache (grep-aptavail > > or rmadison or anything else that is network related). I have no > > experience with R packages so I would need some input here. Possible > > ways I see are: > > > > 1. Don't add relations automatically and let the maintainer do it. > > > > 2. Always add all package names from the DISCRIPTION file to Suggest: > > From my understanding this would need some mapping from the R package > > name to the Debian package name and maybe a rename of the Debian > > packages to simplify the mapping. > > > > 3. Add the list of R package in Debian to dh-r and use it to convert the > > package name. Note that this needs to be updated whenever a R > > packages > > is added or removed in Debian. (This is what dh-python has, afair). > > > > Cheers Jochen > > -- https://fam-tille.de
