[Debian-med-packaging] [med-svn] r15086 - in trunk/packages/R: . r-bioc-shortread r-bioc-shortread/trunk r-bioc-shortread/trunk/debian r-bioc-shortread/trunk/debian/patches r-bioc-shortread/trunk/debian/source

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Charles,

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 06:13:38AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> for R packages, the semantics of the DESCRIPTION files are slightly different
> from Debian's source control files: the Suggests field is used to document the
> packages needed for the regression tests (which are not only the unit tests,
> but also the example code in each manual page).

Yep, I have read some mail you sendet about this recently.

> Because these tests are not
> run at build time, these apparent cross-dependancies are not a problem.  In
> Debian, I think the best way would be to run them through Autopkgtest, otherwise
> our build-dependency graph may become too dense.

Sounds reasonable.  Otherwise we would end up with circular (Build-)Depends.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

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