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Re: Please use consistent signs in version of suggested package glmnet in decoupleR



Hi Pau,

Am Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 10:51:42AM +0200 schrieb Pau Badia i Mompel:
> Thanks for letting me know. I've updated the version to `4.1-7`.

Thanks a lot for your quick response,

> Let me know if something else is needed.

That's all.  The current package is manually fixed and the next release
will work whenever you might issue it.
 
> Cheers!

Thank you for your cooperation
    Andreas.
 
> Pau
> 
> On 17.08.23 16:19, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi Pau,
> > 
> > as you can read in the Debian bug tracking system[1] your choice of
> > choosing the version string `glmnet (>= 4.1.0)` for the suggested
> > package glmnet in the DESCRIPTION of decoupleR is a bit unfortunate for
> > downstream usage as in Debian distribution.  I'm perfectly aware that in
> > the R world version signs '.' and '-' are equal regarding sorting.
> > However the fact that glmnet has choosen the version string '4.1-7'
> > which leads to a Debian package version r-cran-glmnet (4.1-7) which is
> > in the Debian world something else than r-cran-glmnet (4.1.7) and
> > specifically is lower than 4.1.0:
> > 
> >    if $(dpkg --compare-versions 4.1-7 lt 4.1.0); then echo true; fi
> > 
> > To avoid this kind of trouble it would be really helpful if you would
> > consider sticking to the same writing of version number as the package
> > authors of your dependant / suggested package have decided for in your
> > next release of the package.  The thing is that we are generating the
> > version numbers automatically and deriving from the version spelling
> > scheme might break things at our side.
> > 
> > Kind regards and thanks for considering
> >      Andreas.
> > 
> > 
> > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1043224
> > [2] https://cran.r-project.org/package=glmnet
> > 
> 

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