Re: The open BH / r-cran-bh question
Hi again,
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 07:58:25AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > - Or we could do a hybrid as I once did to help another deployment--a virtual
> > package doing the depending on libboost*-dev.
>
> I think this a quite elegant way to on one hand fulfill the BH
> dependency while usining the Debian packaged boost. (I would not use
> term "virtual package" since its a real package - its more like a
> metapackage by just containing dependencies.)
>
> > A trial ballon for that last approach is at
> > https://github.com/eddelbuettel/pkg-r-cran-bh
> >
> > One problem with the latter approach may arise when BH is more recent than
> > Debian's boost (as right now). That is not always the case; at time in the
> > past I even used the Debian sources as sources for BH.
>
> Since I have not experienced any problem by method 2 (patching out BH)
> which should have the very same problem I think we could go for it.
I've tested your preliminary package with a real example
and it worked. I'd suggest the following changes:
* In text s/virtual package/metapackage/.
* May be its sufficient
Depends: libboost-dev
(instead of libboost-all-dev) - at least in all
packages I patched BH this was working
I'd be happy if you would consider uploading this to new.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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