Re: r-bioc-biocinstaller (Was: r-base breaks 9 autopkgtests)
Hi Andreas
On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 at 12:42, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> Exactly this was my motivation to add the Provides. Its not that
> any file needs to be provided - but the functionality.
> > OK, then if src:r-cran-biocmanager ships an empty r-bioc-biocinstaller
> > transitional package,
>
> That's "Provides".
There's nothing that Depends on r-bioc-biocinstaller, so I guess it
could only have been installed manually. Will the Provides be
sufficient to work on upgrades?
> In the current situation I do not see any need to ask Dirk for anything.
OK, great! As per the excuses for r-base [1], once the regressions in
r-cran-filehash and r-cran-haplo.stats have been fixed, I will ask
Dirk to do a no-change source-only upload to resolve the "not built on
buildd" issue.
Regards
Graham
[1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=r-base
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