Re: Update on R 3.0.0 migration (Was: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R)
- To: Philip Rinn <rinni@gmx.net>
- Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>, Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>, Michael Rutter <mar36@psu.edu>, Debian Developers <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>, Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>, The Debichem Group <debichem-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, tfry@users.sourceforge.net
- Subject: Re: Update on R 3.0.0 migration (Was: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R)
- From: Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 13:01:02 +0100
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On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 11:17:31AM +0200, Philip Rinn wrote:
> On 07.04.2013 03:07, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Ah, thanks Chris, I wasn't aware of that! But then it seems to me
> > that the correct lines should be:
> >
> > Build-Depends: ..., r-base-dev, ...
> > [...]
> > Depends: ..., ${R:Depends}, ...
> >
> > as the source package is *not* dependent upon the R version, only the
> > binary package resulting from it; this will aid any backporters, for
> > example.
> No, you have to Build-Depend on the minimal R version your package needs.
> A (probably bad) example: sactterelot3d needs R >= 2.7.0 so my Build-Depends is:
>
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), cdbs, r-base-dev (>= 2.7.0)
Yes, indeed. My bad. But it does *not* need to depend on r-base-dev
(>= 3.0.0) unless the package actually requires 3.0.0 functionality.
Uploading erm 0.14-0-6 with the correct build-time dependencies;
raschsampler has no specified R version dependency, so leaving that
one unspecified.
Julian
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