Hi, it seems dh-r is missing a build dependency on apt (which is neither essential nor build-essential, as I learned today ;-)).
Looking at the log https://reproduce.debian.net/api/v0/builds/110379/log the root cause seems /bin/sh: 1: apt-cache: not found grep-aptavail: command (apt-cache dumpavail) failed (exit status 127) W: Ignoring specified R dependency: R (>= 2.10) W: Cannot find a debian package for Suggests:knitr which is a result of https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/dh-r/-/blob/master/dh/R.pm?ref_type=heads#L16 Best Philip
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