hmisc and r-cran-rms testing migration blocked

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 24 January 2017 at 15:19, Adrian Bunk wrote:
| 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.

Seconded. But it's not my package so ...

Dirk
 
| > Kind regards
| > 
| >        Andreas.
| 
| cu
| Adrian
| 
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