[R-pkg-team] Bug#1089197: Bug#961138: Bug#1089197: dh-r fails without an apt cache

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tags -1 ftbfs

Hi,

trixie is released so marking this RC. Please upload the fix from git.

Cheers Jochen

* Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke at debian.org> [2025-06-01 18:08]:
>Hi,
>
>I plan to clean the apt cache by default for forky and implement that 
>already in the trixie sbuild. This would make a number of R packages 
>(via dh-r) and autodep8 FTBFS. For autodep8 there is an open MR linked 
>already and for dh-r a fix has been committed in git:
>
>https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/dh-r/-/commit/144893ae70c2be8ce403b048b095aabaf6865fd8
>
>Please speak up if there is any problem with this plan. You can test 
>the new behaviour with:
>
>sbuild --starting-build-commands='apt-get distclean' -d unstable <pkg>
>
>Note that you may still want to apply more fixes as outlined in my 
>mail below.
>
>Cheers Jochen
>
>* Jochen Sprickerhof <jspricke at debian.org> [2025-03-02 08:36]:
>>Hi Andreas,
>>
>>* Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org> [2025-03-01 22:39]:
>>>if you can provide a patch / MR I'm fine to apply it but currently
>>>I have no more free spoons to work on this.
>>
>>The real question here is how to solve #1089197, i.e. how to encode 
>>the package relationships without depending on the apt cache 
>>(grep-aptavail or rmadison or anything else that is network 
>>related). I have no experience with R packages so I would need some 
>>input here. Possible ways I see are:
>>
>>1. Don't add relations automatically and let the maintainer do it.
>>
>>2. Always add all package names from the DISCRIPTION file to Suggest:
>>  From my understanding this would need some mapping from the R   
>>package name to the Debian package name and maybe a rename of the   
>>Debian packages to simplify the mapping.
>>
>>3. Add the list of R package in Debian to dh-r and use it to convert   
>>the package name. Note that this needs to be updated whenever a R   
>>packages is added or removed in Debian. (This is what dh-python has,   
>>afair).
>>
>>Cheers Jochen
>
>


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