hmisc and r-cran-rms testing migration blocked

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 08:09:11PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:37:00AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > | 
> > | Therefore nodejs is no longer available on armel.
> > | 
> > | And therefore the node-highlight.js package that does depend on nodejs
> > | is no longer installable on armel.
> > | 
> > | If you need/want r-cran-knitr on armel, you should discuss with
> > | Andreas Tille whether there are possibilities  remove or !armel
> > | the build dependency of r-cran-knitr on node-highlight.js
> > 
> > Right. CCing Andreas -- knitr is by now real R infrastructure as the caller
> > of pandoc. It could quite possibly work meaningfully even without the
> > highlight.js.  I am generally against "forking friom upstream", but this may
> > be worthy a making a different choice.  But I leave the decision to the
> > maintainer.
> 
> ... so you should have CCed the maintainer and not a "random" uploader. :-)
> As you might know I'm not in favour of private discussion.
> 
> I admit that I'm quite uneducated about r-cran-knitr and worked on the
> package only as part of a chain of dependencies for my final target
> (r-cran-treescape).  I'd follow any proposal of more educated people
> which will be considered more sensible than just excluding the package
> from armel (which is not relevant for the said package above.  Feel
> free to commit to
> 
>    https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/r-cran-knitr.git
> 
> which should be writable to any DD and do a Team upload / NMU at your
> preference or send me a patch you consider the best solution.

https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/r-cran-knitr.git/commit/?id=5e342fd1f88595b3779ef1fe6dbce768508b8e4b

It seems wrong that these JS packages are *build* dependencies,
there are not used during the build.

They should instead be Suggests or Recommends, and that would also make
r-cran-knitr available on armel again.

> Kind regards
> 
>        Andreas.

cu
Adrian

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