[R-pkg-team] Bug#932179: (no subject)

[Gordon Ball]

I think supporting this mechanism in dh-update-R should be fairly easy,
so it's really a policy question of what an appropriate compat level and
compat-mechanism is preferred for R packaging.

Debhelper 12 is available in buster, stretch-backports (and
bionic-backports or later ubuntu). My inclination is that it is cleaner
to not have the d/compat file and just have it inline in d/control.

I'll see if I can come up with a patch for dh-update-R which supports
this mechanism. After that we can decide if it should be made the
default for new and/or updated packages.