[R-pkg-team] Bug#901356: r-cran-caret: new version pulls in loads of development packages

[Rogério Brito]

Package: r-cran-caret
Version: 6.0-80-1
Severity: normal

Hi.

Thanks for taking care of packaging R packages.

I noticed that the new version of r-cran-caret depends on libgdal-dev, which
pulls in a lot of development packages and frustrates my plans of creating a
small live CD/DVD/USB of development tools for data analysis.

In fact, looking more closely at the package relationships of r-cran-caret,
I see that it both Depends **and** also Suggests libgdal-dev, so, at least
one of thoses may be a mistake...

Similarly r-cran-testthat is listed both as a Recommends and as a
Suggests... (I may have missed other duplicate packages, if they exist).

Can this be fixed with a new upload?


Thanks,

Rogério Brito.


P.S: Please, ignore the dependencies listed below. They are for an outdated
version of the package.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages r-cran-caret depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.27-3
ii  libgcc1                  1:8.1.0-5
ii  libstdc++6               8.1.0-5
ii  r-base-core [r-api-3.4]  3.4.4-1+b2
ii  r-cran-foreach           1.4.4-1
ii  r-cran-ggplot2           2.2.1-3
ii  r-cran-lattice           0.20-35-1+b1
ii  r-cran-modelmetrics      1.1.0-1+b1
ii  r-cran-nlme              3.1.137-1
ii  r-cran-plyr              1.8.4-1+b1
ii  r-cran-recipes           0.1.2-1
ii  r-cran-reshape2          1.4.3-1
ii  r-cran-withr             2.1.2-2

r-cran-caret recommends no packages.

Versions of packages r-cran-caret suggests:
ii  r-cran-bradleyterry2  1.0-8-1
ii  r-cran-e1071          1.6-8-2+b1
pn  r-cran-ellipse        <none>
pn  r-cran-fastica        <none>
ii  r-cran-gam            1.15-1
ii  r-cran-ipred          0.9-6-1
ii  r-cran-kernlab        0.9-26-1
ii  r-cran-knitr          1.20-2
ii  r-cran-mass           7.3-50-1
ii  r-cran-mgcv           1.8-23-1
pn  r-cran-mlbench        <none>
ii  r-cran-nnet           7.3-12-2+b1
ii  r-cran-randomforest   4.6-14-1
pn  r-cran-testthat       <none>

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