On 24 January 2017 at 15:19, Adrian Bunk wrote: | 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.
Seconded. But it's not my package so ... Dirk | > 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 | -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers
