Author: plessy
Date: 2011-10-22 04:54:32 +0000 (Sat, 22 Oct 2011)
New Revision: 8260
Modified:
trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Make command to set the R:Depends substitution variable.
Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2011-10-22 04:40:50 UTC (rev
8259)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml 2011-10-22 04:54:32 UTC (rev
8260)
@@ -519,7 +519,15 @@
<para>
Packages sent to this PPA may be kept as
branches in our repositories.
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2 id="r-packages">
+ <title>R packages</title>
+ <para>
+ <ulink
url="http://packages.debian.org/r-base";>GNU R</ulink> sometimes introduces
backward incompatibilities, so the current practice is to make packages depend
on versions equal or higher to the one against which they were built. When
using <code>r-dev</code>, this can be acheived by adding the following command
in <filename>debian/rules</filename>. Note the tilde, that ensures that
pre-releases can be used as well.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>install/r-$(debRreposname)-$(cranName)::
+ echo "R:Depends=r-base-core (>= $(shell R --version | head -n1 |
perl -ne 'print / +([0-9]\.[0-9]+\.[0-9])/')~)" >>
debian/r-$(debRreposname)-$(cranName).substvars</programlisting>
+ </sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="tasks">
<title>Tasks</title>
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