Re: Updating Build-Depends for R packages
Hi Graham,
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 09:00:28AM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
> I noticed the following build failures in Ubuntu recently:
>
> r-bioc-genomicfeatures 1.30.0+dfsg-1
> Error : package ‘GenomicRanges’ 1.28.6 was found, but >= 1.29.14 is
> required by ‘GenomicFeatures’
>
> r-bioc-genomicalignments 1.14.0-1
> Error : package ‘GenomicRanges’ 1.28.6 was found, but >= 1.29.14 is
> required by ‘GenomicAlignments’
>
> r-bioc-bsgenome 1.46.0-1
> Error : package ‘GenomicRanges’ 1.28.6 was found, but >= 1.29.14 is
> required by ‘BSgenome’
>
> r-bioc-delayedarray 0.4.1-1
> Error : package ‘IRanges’ 2.10.5 was found, but >= 2.11.17 is required
> by ‘DelayedArray’
>
> Simply giving back these builds was sufficient since the new packages
> had been published, but should the Build-Depends of these packages be
> updated? I'm happy to make the changes in git, given the go-ahead.
Just go ahead. :-)
> Do we have a tool that can update the Build-Depends, or at least warn
> of new / updated versioned dependencies?
We do not *yet* have a tool but I think dh-make-R could / should be
tweaked to enable updating a package (but it is not me who will do this
updata).
Kind regards and thanks for the helpful hints
Andreas.
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