Dear Dirk,
On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 09:53:25AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> [ offense deleted ]
I've really thought about whether I should answer your mail at all. The
fact that I'm doing so is due my continuous respect of the work you did
for the R packaging.
The package you uploaded contains a manually edited list of dependencies
which is redundant when using ${R:Depends}. I'd recommend to drop this
manual list as I suggested in my autogenerated patch. BTW,
autogeneration: I explicitly gave a hint that the patch also contains
a fix for lintian
I: hmisc source: testsuite-autopkgtest-missing
which would prevent that this kind of bugs would be left un-noticed for
a long time. In addition it would help to speed up the testing
migration - IMHO some extra sugar for adding that single line.
I'd also consider
I: hmisc source: debian-watch-uses-insecure-uri
http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Hmisc_([-\d\.]*)\.tar.gz
worth fixing (I assume you read the debian-r list where I have
advertised a tool which is doing this for you).
Finally I interpretet your last mail about specifying versioned
Build-Depends on r-base-dev[1] somehow in a sense that you would not
continue with this habit (also suggested by my patch). Either
I misinterpreted your mail or this was an oversight of yours. It
would clearly help if you would not hide your technical statements
into personal attacks.
Thanks for considering
Andreas.
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-r/2018/05/msg00030.html
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