Bug#819389: ITP: r-cran-bh -- GNU R package with Boost headers

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 3 December 2016 at 08:51, Andreas Tille wrote:
| Hi Dirk,
| 
| I just realised that this ITP seems not to be closes.  I somehow forgot
| this since the former requirement I had for this package seems to have
| vanished.  However, my attempt to upgrade r-cran-rsqlite to its latest
| upstream version due to the missing r-cran-bh.

Done! 

Let's hope it passes NEW.  I am a little worried I may have to extract
copyright information from thousands of header files ...  Worst case we could
still do what we discussed once and have r-cran-bh be a Debian-specific
'wrapper' depending on our Boost header packages.  But I don't like that as
the R builds would then [potentially] behave differently.

| Do you intend to upload this soon to enable me upgrading r-cran-rsqlite?

The other option is to just edit it out of DESCRIPTION.  There will never be
any R code coming from BH; it is (really !!) just a way (for R) to set the -I
flag for the compiler -- and we have that covered differently.

But on balance I still prefer to package CRAN 'as is'.  That is the better
way (even if marginally 'less Debian')

Dirk

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Bug#819389: ITP: r-cran-bh -- GNU R package with Boost headers

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Dirk,

I just realised that this ITP seems not to be closes.  I somehow forgot
this since the former requirement I had for this package seems to have
vanished.  However, my attempt to upgrade r-cran-rsqlite to its latest
upstream version due to the missing r-cran-bh.

Do you intend to upload this soon to enable me upgrading r-cran-rsqlite?

Kind regards

 Andreas.

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Bug#819389: ITP: r-cran-bh -- GNU R package with Boost headers

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Package: wnpp
Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel 
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: r-cran-bh
  Version : 1.60.0-1-1
  Upstream Author : Jay Emerson and Dirk Eddelbuettel
* URL or Web page : http://cloud.r-project.org/package=BH
* License : BSL-1.0
  Description : GNU R package with Boost header

This package (for which I upstream as well) has become a build dependency for
a number of CRAN packages, and hence Andreas Tille asked me to package this.

There is of course overlap with liboost-all-dev and its components. BH is
however very useful in the R and CRAN world as it provides a uniform layer of
Boost headers there (with minimal patching; I have to shorten one path name).
So in the interest of having Debian behave like other systems it makes sense
to package it here. We are also currently ahead of Debian packaging which is
still at Boost 1.58.0.

Regards,  Dirk

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