On 3 February 2012 at 08:03, Andreas Tille wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 01:26:54PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
| > If I remember well, Dirk was
| > reluctant to add such a function before seeing evidence that it is robust in
| > the long term.  And he was right as in the first iteration, the tilde suffix
| > was missing in the version number for ${R:Depends}.
| 
| For this particular reason I would like to see it implemented in
| r-cran.mk.  I'm afraid we have some remaining packages hanging around
| with this tilde issue.  Once using one common - and now tested - code
| we can fix them all.
| 
| > Now that time has passed, I think that we have good evidence that it works. 
 I
| > indeed think that it would be good to propose it as a patch to
| > /usr/share/R/debian/r-cran.mk.
| 
| Dirk, would you accept such a patch (or would just simply copy the code from
| the rules file you just inspected)?

I am a little swamped with a few other things but 

 a) a complete patch

 b) a debian/control file using 

would help.  We actually need $(R_Version) twice in Builds-Depends and
Depends.   This can address both uses, right?

Dirk 

| 
| Kind regards
| 
|        Andreas. 
| 
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