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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 15 June 2018 at 23:58, Andreas Tille wrote:
| Hi Dirk,
| 
| is there any reason why dh-r is needed as Build-Depends for r-base?

That may be an error / oversight / something created when we moved from
cdbs.  I will fix it.
 
| I'm just wondering whether anything of dh-r is really used.

Probably not. We needed to depends on cdbs because r-cran.mk used it, and
this looks like it was a semiautomatic conversion -- which we may not need.

| 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?

I will make the change. There will be R 3.5.1 in two weeks, so it will
propagate quickly enough. I think we may not need an extra upload now.

Thanks for the heads-up.

Dirk

| 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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