Source: r-base Version: 4.3.1-1 Tags: patch Hi Maintainer
r-base has a build-dependency, and r-base-dev has a dependency, on the ancient libpcre3-dev package. I believe these are no longer required since the dependencies on the (confusingly) newer libpcre2-dev are already present, and a test rebuild of r-base with libpcre3-dev dropped still shows the following lines in its build log: checking for pcre2.h... yes checking for pcre2_compile_8 in -lpcre2-8... yes checking if PCRE2 has Unicode support... yes checking whether PCRE support suffices... yes The maintainer of both PCRE packages is trying to get rid of pcre3 during the trixie development cycle [1]. Please consider applying the attached patch in a future upload of r-base. Regards Graham [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/06/msg00383.html
diff -Nru r-base-4.3.1/debian/control r-base-4.3.1/debian/control --- r-base-4.3.1/debian/control 2023-03-15 11:20:15.000000000 -0100 +++ r-base-4.3.1/debian/control 2023-07-03 11:56:05.000000000 +0000 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Priority: optional Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> Standards-Version: 4.6.2 -Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.9.2-2), g++ (>= 4:4.9.2-2), gfortran (>= 4:4.9.2-2), libblas-dev, liblapack-dev, tcl8.6-dev, tk8.6-dev, bison, groff-base, libncurses-dev, libreadline-dev, debhelper-compat (= 12), texinfo, libbz2-dev, liblzma-dev, libpcre2-dev, libpcre3-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev | libcurl4-dev, xdg-utils, zlib1g-dev, libpng-dev, libjpeg-dev, libx11-dev, libxt-dev, x11proto-core-dev, libpango1.0-dev, libcairo2-dev, libtiff-dev, xvfb, xauth, xfonts-base, texlive-base, texlive-latex-base, texlive-plain-generic, texlive-fonts-recommended, texlive-fonts-extra, texlive-extra-utils, texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-latex-extra, default-jdk [!arm !hppa !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386] | openjdk-10-jdk [!arm !hppa !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386], mpack, bash-completion +Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.9.2-2), g++ (>= 4:4.9.2-2), gfortran (>= 4:4.9.2-2), libblas-dev, liblapack-dev, tcl8.6-dev, tk8.6-dev, bison, groff-base, libncurses-dev, libreadline-dev, debhelper-compat (= 12), texinfo, libbz2-dev, liblzma-dev, libpcre2-dev, libcurl4-openssl-dev | libcurl4-dev, xdg-utils, zlib1g-dev, libpng-dev, libjpeg-dev, libx11-dev, libxt-dev, x11proto-core-dev, libpango1.0-dev, libcairo2-dev, libtiff-dev, xvfb, xauth, xfonts-base, texlive-base, texlive-latex-base, texlive-plain-generic, texlive-fonts-recommended, texlive-fonts-extra, texlive-extra-utils, texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-latex-extra, default-jdk [!arm !hppa !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386] | openjdk-10-jdk [!arm !hppa !kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386], mpack, bash-completion Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-base Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-base.git Homepage: http://www.r-project.org/ @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Package: r-base-dev Architecture: all -Depends: ${misc:Depends}, r-base-core (>= ${source:Version}), build-essential, gcc, g++, gfortran, libblas-dev | libatlas-base-dev, liblapack-dev | libatlas-base-dev, libncurses5-dev, libreadline-dev, libjpeg-dev, libpcre2-dev, libpcre3-dev, libpng-dev, zlib1g-dev, libbz2-dev, liblzma-dev, libicu-dev, xauth, pkg-config +Depends: ${misc:Depends}, r-base-core (>= ${source:Version}), build-essential, gcc, g++, gfortran, libblas-dev | libatlas-base-dev, liblapack-dev | libatlas-base-dev, libncurses5-dev, libreadline-dev, libjpeg-dev, libpcre2-dev, libpng-dev, zlib1g-dev, libbz2-dev, liblzma-dev, libicu-dev, xauth, pkg-config Suggests: texlive-base, texlive-latex-base, texlive-plain-generic, texlive-fonts-recommended, texlive-fonts-extra, texlive-extra-utils, texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-latex-extra, texinfo Description: GNU R installation of auxiliary GNU R packages R is a system for statistical computation and graphics. It consists
