[med-svn] r13322 - trunk/community/website/docs

[Charles Plessy]

Author: plessy
Date: 2013-04-16 04:26:46 +0000 (Tue, 16 Apr 2013)
New Revision: 13322

Modified:
   trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
Log:
Update section on R.


Modified: trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2013-04-14 07:52:42 UTC (rev 13321)
+++ trunk/community/website/docs/policy.xml	2013-04-16 04:26:46 UTC (rev 13322)
@@ -579,10 +579,8 @@
 		<sect2 id="r-packages">
 			<title>R packages</title>
 			<para>
-				<ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/r-base">GNU R</ulink> sometimes introduces backward incompatibilities, so the current practice is to make packages depend on versions equal or higher to the one against which they were built.  When using <code>r-dev</code>, this can be acheived by adding the following command in <filename>debian/rules</filename>.  Note the tilde, that ensures that pre-releases can be used as well.
+				<ulink url="http://packages.debian.org/r-base-core">GNU R</ulink> sometimes introduces backward incompatibilities, so the current practice is to make packages depend on versions equal or higher to the one against which they were built.  When using <code>r-base-dev</code>, this can be acheived by adding the substitution variable <code>${R:Depends}</code> in the <emphasis>Depends</emphasis> field of the binary package.
 			</para>
-			<programlisting>install/r-$(debRreposname)-$(cranName)::
-	echo "R:Depends=r-base-core (>= $(shell R --version | head -n1 | perl -ne 'print / +([0-9]\.[0-9]+\.[0-9])/')~)" >> debian/r-$(debRreposname)-$(cranName).substvars</programlisting>
 		</sect2>
 	</sect1>
 	<sect1 id="tasks">