On 30 March 2016 at 13:34, Andreas Tille wrote:
| On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 06:21:55AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > | I talked about this with Dirk[1] and may be I should have done this for
| > | the moment as well. Meanwhile Dirk has ITPed r-cran-bh (#819389) and
| > | has uploaded it to new - so this should be dealt with hopefully soon.
| >
| > It is messy and I can see it two ways. It is good not to double up installed
| > size.
|
| Could you please explain what size exactly is doubled? As far as I
| understood r-cran-b would be just a wrapper for the Debian packaged
| libboost.
Nope. As I explained to you before and in this thread, there is downside in
differing from what is on CRAN. So r-cran-bh, as packaged and so far only on
my box, does what every r-cran-* package does: include the CRAN package:
edd@max:~/src/debian/CRAN$ ls -lh /var/cache/pbuilder/result/*bh*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5.6M Mar 27 17:25
/var/cache/pbuilder/result/r-cran-bh_1.60.0-1-1_all.deb
-rw-rw-r-- 1 edd edd 2.4K Mar 27 17:25
/var/cache/pbuilder/result/r-cran-bh_1.60.0-1-1_amd64.changes
-rw-rw-r-- 1 edd edd 379 Mar 27 16:58
/var/cache/pbuilder/result/r-cran-bh_1.60.0-1-1_amd64.local.upload
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.1K Mar 27 17:24
/var/cache/pbuilder/result/r-cran-bh_1.60.0-1-1.diff.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 edd edd 1.7K Mar 27 17:25
/var/cache/pbuilder/result/r-cran-bh_1.60.0-1-1.dsc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 edd edd 9.2M Dec 28 08:13
/var/cache/pbuilder/result/r-cran-bh_1.60.0-1.orig.tar.gz
edd@max:~/src/debian/CRAN$
But what is another 14mb between friends.
| > It is bad to have a package behave differently -- eg users of a 'fake'
| > r-cran-bh in Debian would see a complete Boost and be tempted to include
| > headers users of the other one do not see. Plus, small deltas.
|
| I totally fail to understand what you mean.
i) BH is not a complete Boost. Never was, never will be. Headers only. And a
selected subset. So some non-Debian R users of BH would potentially see a
build including 'boost-foo' fail whereas we do.
ii) Small delta: 1.58 != 1.60.
| > BH is at
| > 1.60.0; Debian still uses 1.58.0.
|
| That should be a temporary thing since 1.60.0 is in new[1].
We had BH 1.60 for several months now.
Dirk
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