[R-pkg-team] Bug#901625: dh-r has circular Depends on r-base-dev

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Dirk,

is there any reason why dh-r is needed as Build-Depends for r-base?

I'm just wondering whether anything of dh-r is really used.

If yes we possibly need to modularise dh-r in a way that only a
part is used by r-base.

What do you think?

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 09:20:34PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Package: dh-r
> Version: 20180613
> Severity: important
> 
> Hello Debian R Packages Maintainers,
> 
> There is a circular dependency between dh-r and r-base-dev:
> 
> dh-r:       Depends: r-base-dev
> r-base-dev: Depends: dh-r
> 
> Circular dependencies are known to cause problems
> during upgrade between stable releases, so we should try to avoid them.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>
> 
> Imagine a large red swirl here. 
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