[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#704606: Change in 2.15.3-2 prevents rebuild of package with a dot in their name.

[Charles Plessy]

Package: r-base-dev
Version: 2.15.3-2

Hi Dirk,

while proceeding to rebuild other packages, I was blocked by the following
change introduced in r-base-dev 2.15.3-2:

   * debian/r-cran.mk: Applied patch by m.eik michalke to also convert '.'
     in package names to '-'

This causes r-cran-g.data and r-cran-haplo.stats to fail to build with an
error like the following.

if test -f /usr/bin/xvfb-run; then                      \
                         xvfb-run -a                    \
                                R CMD INSTALL -l /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/r-cran-g-data/usr/li
b/R/site-library --clean     \
                                         . ;    \
                else                                                    \
                         R CMD INSTALL -l /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/r-cran-g-data/usr/lib/R/sit
e-library       \
                                        --clean  . ;\
                fi
Error: ERROR: cannot cd to directory
'/«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/r-cran-g-data/usr/lib/R/site-library'

(The directory should be /«PKGBUILDDIR»/debian/r-cran-g.data/usr/lib/R/site-library,
with a dot in g.data).

I did not manage to find with search engines where the patch originated.  Is
there a chance you could revert it ?

Cheers,

-- 
Charles