Bug#893895: dh-r: versioned dependencies are incorrect when epochs are present

[Andreas Tille]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 05:24:55PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> 
> I now realize that packages are supposed to be buildable without network
> access, so query the apt cache is the way to go.
> 
> I'm wondering how similar helpers for other languages solve this problem (maybe
> they don't, i.e. they just decided to avoid epochs – at least it's what we are
> doing in the Debian Octave Group).

Too bad that I squashed this bug simply for esthetical reasons. :-(

On the other hand there exist other r-cran packages featuring epochs
since a long time (r-cran-sp is just one example).  So at least now
this problem has become visible.

Sorry for this

     Andreas.

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