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

[Dylan Aïssi <daissi@debian.org>]

Hi Dirk,

Le jeu. 28 mai 2020 à 18:03, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> a écrit :
>
> OTOH the way we implement the tag doesn't it get added automagically by the
> r-base-core package when constructing an r-{cran,bioc,...}-* package?
>

Yes, it is.

But, in one week I found by chance two packages (r-cran-isospec and
r-bioc-mofa) with similar problem.These packages are not simple, the
Debian source package generates more than one binary package. In
addition to the binary R package, isospec generates libraries packages
and a python package and r-bioc-mofa generates a python package. They
have a non standard d/rules file that induce a bug.

I would say if I have found this bug twice in one week, it will happen
again :-(.

Best,
Dylan