[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#961492: routine-update removes required dependencies

[Andreas Tille]

Control: reassign -1 dh-r
Control: retitle -1 dh-update-R removes non-R dependencies"

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 12:02:58PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Package: routine-update
> Version: 0.0.2
> Severity: grave
> 
> https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-nozzle.r1/-/commit/7d7b872597ffa83f453db4d3b43c0e66d49bd479
> https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-fontliberation/-/commit/952ff2238ad81e9da18899dcd871ecc5454dd0c8
> 
> These were causing RC bugs during the R transition,
> I hope there are not more such breakages that were
> not yet found.

The issue is actually not causes by routine-update but rather
by dh-update-R that regenerates all Depends automatically but
does not respect non-R dependencies we injected for instance
to provide JS files.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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