[Debichem-devel] Update on R 3.0.0 migration (Was: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R)

[Julian Gilbey]

On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 11:17:31AM +0200, Philip Rinn wrote:
> On 07.04.2013 03:07, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Ah, thanks Chris, I wasn't aware of that!  But then it seems to me
> > that the correct lines should be:
> > 
> > Build-Depends: ..., r-base-dev, ...
> > [...]
> > Depends: ..., ${R:Depends}, ...
> > 
> > as the source package is *not* dependent upon the R version, only the
> > binary package resulting from it; this will aid any backporters, for
> > example.
> No, you have to Build-Depend on the minimal R version your package needs.
> A (probably bad) example: sactterelot3d needs R >= 2.7.0 so my Build-Depends is:
> 
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), cdbs, r-base-dev (>= 2.7.0)

Yes, indeed.  My bad.  But it does *not* need to depend on r-base-dev
(>= 3.0.0) unless the package actually requires 3.0.0 functionality.

Uploading erm 0.14-0-6 with the correct build-time dependencies;
raschsampler has no specified R version dependency, so leaving that
one unspecified.

   Julian