Bug#961709: lintian: Warn if R binary packages don't depend on virtual r-api-* package

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Hi Dylan,

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 10:10:54AM +0200, Dylan Aïssi wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.77.1
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-CC: debian-r@lists.debian.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just saw a R binary package (r-cran-isospec) with wrong dependencies
> (bug not yet opened). Lintian doesn't warn about a problem in its
> dependencies, so it would be cool to add a new warning (maybe
> "missing-dependency-on-r-api") to warn if any R binary packages (
> r-{cran|bioc|other}-* ) don't depend at least to a virtual r-api-*
> package.

Please go for it.

Regarding the actual package:  I'd strongly suggest to move it to
R pkg team as we did with all those packages (and when doing so also
change the source package name from isospec to r-cran-isospec).

Kind regards

        Andreas. 

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