Bug#842092: dh-r: Please provide variables known from cdbs helper for R packages

[Andreas Tille]

Package: dh-r
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I'm starting to convert some of my R packages from cdbs helper to dh-r.
When converting r-bioc-biocparallel I wanted to turn the code to fix the
permissions of a file into

override_dh_fixperms:
	dh_fixperms
	chmod -x $(debRlib)/$(cranNameOrig)/snow/RMPInode.R

Unfortunately the variables known from cdbs helper do not exist in dh-r.
I think it would increase the acceptance of dh-r if these would be
available and could be used in the manner above.

Kind regards and thanks for the great dh-r tool

     Andreas.


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