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

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:53:00PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> My messages to debian-med-packaging bounced. So we may as well write in
> German and just between the two of us...

Please stick to English - I could at least full quote you to keep other
competent people in the row (even if I have no idea why the mail would
bounce ...)
 
> | 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.
> 
> We could try the following:
> 
>   1)  I create a new R package called BH4debian. It contains 'nothing'
>   2)  We package it for Debian as BH.
>   3)  Now R thinks there is a package BH. Builds of dplyr etc are happy.
>       a) "All that R does" when it sees a LinkingTo: BH is to provide
>          a proper -I directive for the compiler.  No more, no less.
>       b) We don't even need a softlink as Boost headers are found anyway.
> 
> I could set this up and you could test it on dplyr.  It it works....

That would be great if it would work.  Regarding the version issue you
were mentioning in your other mail between boost 1.58 and 1.60: I'm
pretty sure that the boost transition in Debian is a complex process.
It would be great if your plan would work with any version of boost
available in Debian.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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