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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Rogério,

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 06:32:14PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> 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.

I need to check this.
 
> 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...

The list of Depends / Recommends / Suggests is autogenerated by dh-r so
I need to check whether there is some bug there.
 
> Similarly r-cran-testthat is listed both as a Recommends and as a
> Suggests... (I may have missed other duplicate packages, if they exist).

I think the reason for this is at least clear.  I changed dh-r to add
all packages that are needed to run the test suite of the package to
Recommends.  I think this makes sense to enable users checking the
functionality on a default installation.  Consequently I should have
made sure that the packages which were upgraded to Recommends will be
removed from the list of Suggests.  That's surely a bug in dh-r which
I'll tackle soon.
 
> Can this be fixed with a new upload?

We are currently in a transition to R 3.5.  Thus no quick updates until
this transition is finished but I try to do it quickly afterwards.
 
Kind regards and thanks for your bug report

     Andreas.

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