On 3 June 2010 at 22:04, Johannes Ranke wrote: | Hi Edwin, hi Dirk, hi all, | | thanks for tracking it down - the r-cran-class package simply did not build | over here because of a missing build dependency on r-cran-mass (my build | system with pbuilder is picky with this). | | The packages are on their way to CRAN now. | | Dirk - don't you need this build dependency in your r-cran-class package? I | wonder why the package builds at your end but not at mine without | intervention.
Coincidentally, I just got a bug report about that and fixed it this morning: r-cran-class (7.3-2-2) unstable; urgency=low * debian/control: Added r-cran-mass to (Build-)Depends: (Closes: #584340) -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:07:29 -0500 Dirk | | Kind regards, | | Johannes | | Am Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2010, um 19:05:23 schrieb Edwin Groot: | > Hello all, | > I encountered a problem using the recommended backport method to | > upgrade R from 2.7.1 to 2.11.1 in a Debian lenny system. | > r-base cannot install, and I tracked it down to a r-cran-class | > dependency: | > | > # apt-get install r-cran-class | > Reading package lists... Done | > Building dependency tree | > Reading state information... Done | > Package r-cran-class is not available, but is referred to by another | > package. | > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or | > is only available from another source | > E: Package r-cran-class has no installation candidate | > | > I installed backports of r-base-core and r-base-dev, but this did not | > help the problem. Do I need to reinstall Debian? | > | > Diagnostic information: | > # uname -a | > Linux MyNotebook 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 12 22:12:20 UTC 2010 | > x86_64 GNU/Linux | > | > > sessionInfo() | > | > R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) | > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu | > | > locale: | > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C | > [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 | > [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 | > [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C | > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C | > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C | > | > attached base packages: | > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base | > | > | > Regards, | > Edwin | | _______________________________________________ | R-SIG-Debian mailing list | [email protected] | https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian -- Regards, Dirk _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian

