[R-pkg-team] Bug#1100292: fastcluster 1.3.0 is on CRAN

[Daniel Müllner]

Hi all,

fastcluster 1.3.0 is on CRAN now! Please let me know whether you have 
everything you need to make a new Debian package.

On a side note, I am unsure whether the various build tools test the 
fastcluster package after building. E.g.,
     pip install --no-binary fastcluster fastcluster
builds the package from source but does not test it.

As this bug ticket shows, running unit tests after building is valuable, 
and the tests don't take long.

Unfortunately, the old "python setup.py test" does not work any more. I 
refactored the unit tests so that they now work with newer tools. Both
     pytest <src dir>/tests
and
     tox
work for me. Tests need SciPy, so you might want to specify this as a 
dependency.

Bottom line: I recommend revisiting the testing part of the build files 
and making sure that unit tests are still executed.

Best,

Daniel