[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#631141: Bug#631141: closed by Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> (Bug#631141: fixed in r-cran-surveillance 1.2-1-2)

[Stefano Rivera]

Hi Charles (2011.07.05_01:00:03_+0200)
> note that the real reason underlying the build failures related to r-cran-vr,
> is probably that in Ubuntu r-cran-vr has not been removed from the archive
> after r-cran-mass took over its contents, as it was done in Debian.  Or that
> the build daemon's resolver does not manage to take into account that
> r-cran-mass Replaces/Provides/Conflicts with r-cran-vr.

Yeah, it tries to install r-cran-vr, as it's still available, rather
than follow Provides.

Thanks for the hint, I should have looked at the situation a little more
closely.

Filed for vr removal in Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/805832

SR

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