[Debian-med-packaging] Please package r-cran-bh for Debian

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Dirk,

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:34:19AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 22 March 2016 at 17:24, Andreas Tille wrote:
> | I remember that you once was not happy when somebody ITPed a package
> | where you are in the list of authors.  Since this is true for BH
> | as well I would like you to package this for Debian.  I need it as
> | a dependency for r-cran-dplyr[1].
> 
> Right.  There is probably more come down the pipe as BH is popular.

Sounds probable.
 
> | Feel free to ask me to do the packaging myself if you don't have time
> | or interest to do it.
> 
> Could do. It is easy -- but 'big'.  At least it will be 'arch:all'.
> 
> But I feel I am already in the bad books for 'doubling up' Armadillo and
> Eigen (which both at least have a little bit of local coode in the package).
> 
> BH is a strct subset of libboost-all-dev.  So should we with that maybe do
> something 'virtual'?  I don't have a solution, I am wondering if it is possible.

Not sure what you mean by 'virtual'?  I'm to uneducated in R to give any
advise what can be done to fulfill the dependency from 'BH'.  I have
seen R packages that can be replaced - I think r-bioc-zlib is something
we've got rid of by linking directly against zlib1-dev.  If you mean
something like this I might have a look how we did things in this case.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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