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

[Rogério Brito]

Hi, Andreas and other people.

I'm sending this to the list instead of filing other bugs, so that other
people can take a look and see if I am doing something wrong or not.

On Jun 12 2018, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 06:32:14PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > 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.

I found other packages that seem to have some dubious dependencies on
libgdal-dev (the previous versions didn't have such dependencies, but the
new one does and it doesn't seem like the package should really depend on it):

* r-cran-bbmle
* r-cran-modeltools
* r-cran-rgl
* r-cran-sn

Have I missed something?


Thanks in advance,

Rogério.

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