[R-pkg-team] Bug#946987: r-cran-dqrng: Relationship to libpcg-cpp-dev and r-cran-sitmo

Ralf Stubner ralf.stubner at gmail.com
Thu Dec 19 07:39:36 GMT 2019


Hi Andreas,

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 7:57 AM Andreas Tille <andreas at fam-tille.de> wrote:
> Both, build-time as well as run-time dependencies are autogenerated.
> While the field Build-Depends is created by dh-update-R before the
> actual package build, the dependencies are resolved by dh-r in the
> ${R:Depends} variable.  Both are parsing DESCRIPTION and this has
>
>    LinkingTo: sitmo (>= 2.0.0)
>
> which makes the strong Depends rectified in my perception.

A strong depends on sitmo would be fine as well. However, right now
there is only
a build-dependency on sitmo. Maybe the Depends was not generated because
r-cran-sitmo seems to be missing from the archives?

cheerio
ralf



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