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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 7 June 2018 at 15:32, Andreas Tille wrote:
| 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.

Consider the following thought experiment:

- the change was made in 2014
- nobody noticed
- the bug is filed 'grave'

So either nobody uses the package, or it doesn't matter in practical
use. Both ot these cannot be true at the same.

I am not interested in theoretical consideration quote reference manual or
policy. I have been here long enough to understand that you are correct in
the narrow (and here, irrelevant) sense.  I simply still have not given up
hope that you may have some common sense left. I could be wrong.

Dirk
 
| > 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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