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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi again,

since I spotted an unrelated issue of dh-r when rebuilding
r-bioc-dirichletmultinomial I went through the list of packages below.
All team maintained packages are fixed now.

Dirk, please make sure you will rebuild

    r-cran-rgl
    r-cran-sn

before Buster freeze.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 08:02:56AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> 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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