[R-pkg-team] Bug#961492: Ping: Any Perl programmer able to fix dh-update-R (Was: Bug#961492: routine-update removes required dependencies)

[Andreas Tille]

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Ping on this topic.  This bug is really nasty and I do not have any
spare cycles to tackle this.

Kind regards

         Andreas.

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 11:29:54AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 11:21:48AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > The issue is actually not causes by routine-update but rather
> > by dh-update-R that regenerates all Depends automatically but
> > does not respect non-R dependencies we injected for instance
> > to provide JS files.
> 
> As a workaround I'm usially adding a comment
> 
>    # <dh-update-R>do not delete this</dh-update-R>
> 
> but that's for sure no acceptable solution.  Gordon (or somebody else)
> do you have some spare cycles to make sure dh-update-R will rewrite only
> the R Dependencies and leave other Depends we added manually alone?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>      Andreas.
> 
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