[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#837235: r-bioc-deseq2: FTBFS: build-dependency not installable: r-cran-knitr

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 10/09/16 at 10:33 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Lucas,
> 
> before you keep on filing bug reports against lots of R packages are you sure
> that your build environment is correct.  r-cran-knitr is available as far as
> I can see.

Available, yes. Installable, no:
It seems that r-cran-yaml needs updating.

(unstable-amd64-sbuild)root at ip-172-31-10-194:~# apt-get build-dep r-bioc-deseq2 
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 builddeps:r-bioc-deseq2 : Depends: r-cran-knitr but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
(unstable-amd64-sbuild)root at ip-172-31-10-194:~# apt-get install r-cran-knitr
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 r-cran-knitr : Depends: r-cran-yaml but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
(unstable-amd64-sbuild)root at ip-172-31-10-194:~# apt-get install r-cran-knitr r-cran-yaml
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 r-cran-yaml : Depends: libyaml-0-2 (= 0.1.6-3) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
(unstable-amd64-sbuild)root at ip-172-31-10-194:~# apt-get install r-cran-knitr r-cran-yaml libyaml-0-2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 r-cran-yaml : Depends: libyaml-0-2 (= 0.1.6-3) but 0.1.7-1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.