See eg https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html
We have other big fish to fry. Eg many packages have LinkingTo: BH (as Boost headers are indeed awesome) but this 120 mb (!!) payload is needed _once_ during package compilation / installation and never again afterwards. So Build-Depends: would be a nice addition too. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel