On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 08:09:11PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 11:37:00AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > | > > | Therefore nodejs is no longer available on armel. > > | > > | And therefore the node-highlight.js package that does depend on nodejs > > | is no longer installable on armel. > > | > > | If you need/want r-cran-knitr on armel, you should discuss with > > | Andreas Tille whether there are possibilities remove or !armel > > | the build dependency of r-cran-knitr on node-highlight.js > > > > Right. CCing Andreas -- knitr is by now real R infrastructure as the caller > > of pandoc. It could quite possibly work meaningfully even without the > > highlight.js. I am generally against "forking friom upstream", but this may > > be worthy a making a different choice. But I leave the decision to the > > maintainer. > > ... so you should have CCed the maintainer and not a "random" uploader. :-) > As you might know I'm not in favour of private discussion. > > I admit that I'm quite uneducated about r-cran-knitr and worked on the > package only as part of a chain of dependencies for my final target > (r-cran-treescape). I'd follow any proposal of more educated people > which will be considered more sensible than just excluding the package > from armel (which is not relevant for the said package above. Feel > free to commit to > > https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/r-cran-knitr.git > > which should be writable to any DD and do a Team upload / NMU at your > preference or send me a patch you consider the best solution.
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-science/packages/r-cran-knitr.git/commit/?id=5e342fd1f88595b3779ef1fe6dbce768508b8e4b It seems wrong that these JS packages are *build* dependencies, there are not used during the build. They should instead be Suggests or Recommends, and that would also make r-cran-knitr available on armel again. > Kind regards > > Andreas. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers
