[R-pkg-team] Bug#900974: r-cran-hmisc: Missing Depends: r-cran-foreign, r-cran-nnet

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Dirk,

On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 07:38:36AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> severity -1 normal
> quit
> 
> On 7 June 2018 at 14:25, Andreas Tille wrote:
> | Package: r-cran-hmisc
> | Severity: grave
> | Tags: patch
> | Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Not really. Those two are "Recommended" package. Any normal R installation has them.

I will not entertain severity ping-pong but your arguing is wrong.
Pbuilder is creating a minimum installation and the missing Dependency
simply breaks other packages.

> Looks like an editing oversight when the Build-Depends got expanded. Given
> the near-official status of those two "Recommended" package, it does hardly
> matter every R installation will have them -- particularly an expanded one
> that could have CRAN package Hmisc.
> 
> Fixing it regardless.  

Thank you

      Andreas. 

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