Re: unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales

To: Benjamin Eikel <debian@eikel.org>
Cc: debian-med@lists.debian.org, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: unnecessarily tight dependency on R for r-cran-scales
From: Faheem Mitha <faheem@faheem.info>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 18:00:45 +0530 (IST)
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On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Benjamin Eikel wrote:

Hello Faheem,

Am Freitag, 9. August 2013, 15:21:36 schrieb Faheem Mitha:

Hi,

When I try to install r-cran-scales in unstable, I get


I think that this behavior is not special to r-cran-scales. Many other
packages use ${R:Depends}, too (e.g., r-cran-plyr, r-cran-reshape, r-cran-
rsqlite, r-cran-stringr).

That is true. But I noticed it for r-cran-scales because the installationfailed for what is basically the most recent version of R available.


                                                          Regards, Faheem

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