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

[Benjamin Eikel <debian@eikel.org>]

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).

Kind regards
Benjamin

> 
> root@orwell:/home/faheem# apt-get install r-cran-scales
> 
> [snip]
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   r-cran-scales : Depends: r-base-core (>= 3.0.1-3) but
> 3.0.1-3~wheezycran3.0 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you
> have held broken packages.
> 
> I'm using Dirk's CRAN wheezy backport of R 3.0 from unstable. My point
> is that ${R:Depends} seems to pick the most recent version of R that
> it is built against. I don't know if this is actually necessary,
> because this package clearly does not require such a tight dependency.
> 
> To get it to work I had to rebuild on my machine.
> 
> The relevant control follows.
> 
>                                   Regards, Faheem
> 
> 
> ################################################
> 
> Source: r-cran-scales
> Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
> <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Uploaders: Benjamin Eikel <debian@eikel.org>
> Section: gnu-r
> Priority: optional
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
>                 cdbs,
>                 r-base-dev (>= 2.10.0),
>                 r-cran-rcolorbrewer,
>                 r-cran-stringr,
>                 r-cran-dichromat,
>                 r-cran-munsell,
>                 r-cran-plyr,
>                 r-cran-labeling
> Standards-Version: 3.9.4
> Vcs-Browser:
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-med/r-cran-scales.git
> Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/debian-med/r-cran-scales.git
> Homepage: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/scales/index.html
> 
> Package: r-cran-scales
> Architecture: all
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},
>           ${misc:Depends},
>           ${R:Depends},
>           r-cran-rcolorbrewer,
>           r-cran-stringr,
>           r-cran-dichromat,
>           r-cran-munsell,
>           r-cran-plyr,
>           r-cran-labeling
> Description: Scale functions for graphics
>   Scales map data to aesthetics, and provide methods for automatically
>   determining breaks and labels for axes and legends.