[R-pkg-team] Bug#1089197: Bug#961138: autodep8 uses host APT packages to generate dependencies for pkg-r-autopkgtest tests

[Jochen Sprickerhof]

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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