Hi all,
Maybe someone on the list can help with a sharp insight before I go trying. The r-base source package (for the R system and language) has a somewhat cobbled together debian/rules [1], mostly of my making over the last 20+ years since I helped Doug more and more and eventually took it over. I apologize for the rough shape it is in, but hey, it works. Mostly. Read on. As it was common, I used to binary upload, so arch: all documentation packages where built here and shipped. A user alerted me (in private mail, rather than via BTS, it happens) that the most recent upload is missing some files: I have just realized that all the /usr/lib/R/library/*/html/00Index.html and /usr/lib/R/library/*/html/R.css files are missing from r-base-html_3.6.1-4_all.deb and r-base-html_3.6.1-3_all.deb. They are there in r-base-html_3.6.1-2_all.deb. He is correct, and pondering this I realized that it very likely corresponds to me being gently nudged to source uploads (a good thing, overall). So presumably the dependency graph within debian/rules is wrong. Would anybody here know - either a failsafe idiom forcing the right thing to happen - or a more efficient way to ensure the binary-arch is built before binary-all? Should I force it? Is that wasteful? Is there a recommended way? Happy to test a few things but I thought I'd ask before wasting a lot of time on it more randomly. Please CC me on replies. Many thanks, Dirk [1] https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-base/blob/master/debian/rules -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
