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

[Andreas Tille]

Dear Dirk,


On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 09:53:25AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> [ offense deleted ]

I've really thought about whether I should answer your mail at all.  The
fact that I'm doing so is due my continuous respect of the work you did
for the R packaging.

The package you uploaded contains a manually edited list of dependencies
which is redundant when using ${R:Depends}.  I'd recommend to drop this
manual list as I suggested in my autogenerated patch.  BTW,
autogeneration:  I explicitly gave a hint that the patch also contains
a fix for lintian

  I: hmisc source: testsuite-autopkgtest-missing

which would prevent that this kind of bugs would be left un-noticed for
a long time.  In addition it would help to speed up the testing
migration - IMHO some extra sugar for adding that single line.

I'd also consider

  I: hmisc source: debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Hmisc_([-\d\.]*)\.tar.gz

worth fixing (I assume you read the debian-r list where I have
advertised a tool which is doing this for you).

Finally I interpretet your last mail about specifying versioned
Build-Depends on r-base-dev[1] somehow in a sense that you would not
continue with this habit (also suggested by my patch).  Either
I misinterpreted your mail or this was an oversight of yours.  It
would clearly help if you would not hide your technical statements
into personal attacks.

Thanks for considering

       Andreas.


[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-r/2018/05/msg00030.html

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