Re: Do R autopkgtests not respect versioned Deps?

[Graham Inggs <ginggs@debian.org>]

Hi Nilesh

On Mon, 20 Sept 2021 at 09:39, Nilesh Patra <nilesh@nileshpatra.info> wrote:
> $ apt show ./r-cran-tmb_1.7.21-2_amd64.deb | grep 'r-cran-matrix'
>
> Depends: r-base-core (>= 4.1.1-2), r-api-4.0, r-cran-matrix (>= 1.3-4), r-cran-rcppeigen, libblas3 | libblas.so.3, libc6 (>= 2.29), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libgomp1 (>= 4.2.1), liblapack3 | liblapack.so.3, libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
>
> However, despite this versioned dep, the autopkgtest on debci pulls 1.3-2 of rmatrix, see here[1]. I also do not see
> anything versioned either.
> Why is this happening?

1.3-2-1 is greater than 1.3-4 (note the double - signs)

dpkg --compare-versions 1.3-2-1 gt 1.3-4 && echo true

Regards
Graham