Bug#819389: ITP: r-cran-bh -- GNU R package with Boost headers
Package: wnpp
Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
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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