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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Rogério,

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 10:04:16PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote:
> > 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?

No, you are right.  For some reason a libgdal-dev dependency was sneaked
into dh/R.pm.  This was fixed here:


commit ef2aee944435e9027ee229e2332d79ba61f44836
Author: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
Date:   Wed Jun 13 13:12:05 2018 +0200

    Do not replace random dependencies by libgdal-dev


Unfortunately r-* packages build before this date have quite some chance
that this dependency is injected.  The actual packages are:

udd=# select DISTINCT package from packages where package like 'r-%' and depends like '%libgdal-dev%' and release = 'sid' order by package;
           package           
-----------------------------
 r-bioc-annotationdbi
 r-bioc-dirichletmultinomial
 r-bioc-genomeinfodb
 r-bioc-genomicranges
 r-bioc-graph
 r-bioc-iranges
 r-bioc-multtest
 r-cran-bbmle
 r-cran-lavaan
 r-cran-mi
 r-cran-modeltools
 r-cran-rgl
 r-cran-sn
 r-cran-tmvtnorm
 r-cran-truncdist
 r-cran-vgam
 r-other-nitpick
(17 Zeilen)


Most of the packages are "healed" automatically since I uploaded most of
the packages that were not part of the R migration to change the
maintainer field to R pkg team.  If it is really disturbing to you I can
re-upload those 17 packages soon.  At least we should make sure that they
will be fixed for Buster release.

Thanks again for the heads up

      Andreas.

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