Bug#897418: dh-r: dh-update-R should not remove non-R Build-Depends like libboost-dev

[Andreas Tille]

Package: dh-r
Severity: important

Hi,

I was running dh-update-R on r-bioc-rbgl.  This had the effect of
removing the Build-Depends libboost-dev (which is used instead of BH).
Since there might be other Build-Depends needed that are hard to detect
by dh-update-R IMHO the best way to deal with this is to keep all those
Build-Depends that are not matching '^r-(cran|bioc)-.+' pattern in the
name.

Kind regards

        Andreas.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages dh-r depends on:
ii  dctrl-tools  2.24-2+b1
pn  debhelper    <none>
pn  r-base-dev   <none>

dh-r recommends no packages.

dh-r suggests no packages.