[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#842914: r-bioc-cummerbund: FTBFS (no package called 'foreign')

[Santiago Vila]

Package: src:r-bioc-cummerbund
Version: 2.16.0-1
Severity: serious

Dear maintainer:

I tried to build this package in stretch with "dpkg-buildpackage -A"
(which is what the "Arch: all" autobuilder would do to build it)
but it failed:

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 debian/rules build-indep
dh build-indep --buildsystem R
   dh_testdir -i -O--buildsystem=R
   dh_update_autotools_config -i -O--buildsystem=R
   dh_auto_configure -i -O--buildsystem=R
   dh_auto_build -i -O--buildsystem=R
   dh_auto_test -i -O--buildsystem=R
 fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep
dh binary-indep --buildsystem R
   dh_testroot -i -O--buildsystem=R
   dh_prep -i -O--buildsystem=R
   dh_installdirs -i -O--buildsystem=R
   dh_auto_install -i -O--buildsystem=R
I: R Package: cummeRbund Version: 2.16.0
I: Building using R version 3.3.1.20161024-1
I: R API version: r-api-3
I: Using built-time from d/changelog: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:53:32 +0200
	mkdir -p /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-bioc-cummerbund/usr/lib/R/site-library
	R CMD INSTALL -l /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-bioc-cummerbund/usr/lib/R/site-library --clean . "--built-timestamp='Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:53:32 +0200'"
* installing *source* package 'cummeRbund' ...
** R
** data
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Error in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]) : 
  there is no package called 'foreign'
Error : package 'Gviz' could not be loaded
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'cummeRbund'
* removing '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-bioc-cummerbund/usr/lib/R/site-library/cummeRbund'
dh_auto_install: R CMD INSTALL -l /<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/debian/r-bioc-cummerbund/usr/lib/R/site-library --clean . --built-timestamp='Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:53:32 +0200' returned exit code 1
debian/rules:4: recipe for target 'binary-indep' failed
make: *** [binary-indep] Error 25
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary-indep gave error exit status 2
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Seems like a missing build-depends.

Thanks.