[R-pkg-team] Bug#1054323: r-cran-tmb: autopkgtest needs update for new version of rmatrix: Package version inconsistency detected

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Graham,

Am Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 10:12:56AM -0100 schrieb Graham Inggs:
> > still depends on:
> > r-cran-matrix (>= 1.6-1.1)
> >
> > So the version is still not correct.
> 
> Note that this is Depends, not Build-Depends.

Ahhhh, thanks for pointing this out!
 
> I found that in debian/control, r-cran-tmb has Depends:
> r-cran-matrix (>= 1.5-3-1~), but this is somehow replaced in the
> binary package, presumably by dh-r?
> 
> Andreas, would it be possible for dh-r to always replace the version
> in r-cran-tmb's Depends with r-cran-matrix (>= [the version of
> r-cran-matrix it was built with]) ?
> 
> Then you can avoid modifying Build-Depends and upstream's DESCRIPTION,
> and will allow r-cran-tmb to be binNMU'd when needed.  It should also
> allow for easier backporting.

That's a promising idea which I'll try to implement.

Kind regards
     Andreas. 

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