Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> writes:
> On 31 March 2013 at 19:12, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> | However the binaries seem to claim they would also work with the newer R
> | versions? I looked at r-cran-rsymphony and it has
> |   Depends: [...], r-base-core (>= 2.14.1)
>
> You looked at the code from before the update of that package:
>
>   Package: r-cran-rsymphony
>   Architecture: any
>   Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${R:Depends}
>
> leading to 
>
>   edd@max:~$ dpkg -f /var/cache/pbuilder/result/r-cran-rsymphony_0.1-15-2_i386.deb |grep Depends
>   Depends: libatlas3-base, libc6 (>= 2.1.3), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), \
>   libgfortran3 (>= 4.3), libquadmath0 (>= 4.6), libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0), \
>   r-base-core (>= 3.0.0~20130330-1) 
>   edd@max:~$ 
>
> | which would still be satisfied by r-base-core 3.0.0~20130330-1...
>
> Not an issue as seen above.

That just means you cannot use the new r-cran-rsymphony with the old
r-base-core. But it looks like you can use the *old* r-cran-rsymphony
with the *new* r-base-core, although you said that a rebuild is required
(and thus this combination shouldn't be allowed by the dependencies).

Ansgar