Bug#868558: nmu: multiple r-* packages

[Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>]

On 9 September 2017 at 16:18, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
| But since I do not want to waste my time, I first need to be sure that you would
| accept such a patch.

Re-read

 http://eddelbuettel.github.io/rcppapt/binnmuAfterR340.html

and construct (using R and my RcppAPT packages) the set of packages that

 - are reverse depends of r-base-core in Debian (just over 500+ iirc)
 - have a src/ directory, ie are Archicture: any 
 - have .C or .Fortran calls below R/
 - use dynamic symbol registration 
 - but ignore whether they have been rebuilt

so it would differ from my analysis.  I reckon that you would end up with
maybe 100 to 150 (a guess) packages for which you would need a Breaks:
declaration.

Now I, as maintainer of r-base, feel that I would not serve my users with the
added fragility of 100+ breaks statements.

But you are of course free to create a locally patched package for local
tests and users.  We know how quickly a local apt repo can be created.  As
having this functionality seems rather important to you (while I remain more
than sceptical) I suggest you work on that in such a local package.

Dirk

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