[R-pkg-team] Bug#1103369: Bug#1103118: r-cran-timechange: should depend on R>=4.5

Chris Hofstaedtler zeha at debian.org
Tue Apr 29 16:24:36 BST 2025


* Rebecca N. Palmer <rebecca_palmer at zoho.com> [250429 17:21]:
>This isn't a 32-bit problem as such - it's another package that picked 
>up the R_getVar symbol (new in R 4.5) when it was binNMUd on some 
>architectures.
>
>(The other known one is r-cran-svglite #1103369.  Like that one, the 
>best we can do after the fact is to add an explicit R>=4.5 dependency, 
>which I am now doing.)

BTW, why is this dependency not automatically generated? Shouldn't 
this be fully automatic with dh_shlibdeps?

Is this maybe a bug in r-base-core?

Chris



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