On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 09:13:46PM +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > I'm not sure so please explain in more detail. dh-r was designed to put > > the lowest restriction regarding the versions. I remember some > > discussion some time ago that Dirk thought we should put stronger > > restrictions (and he is sometimes adding version restrictions manually > > that are not helpful for backporting). If I will be sure I understand > > your point exactly I can check the code and the relevant discussion. > > (Feel free to file a bug report about this and we can discuss it there > > if you think this makes more sense.) > > It comes from this line: > https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/dh-r/-/blob/master/dh/R.pm#L272 > > More precisely the “r-base-core (>= $rbase_version)” part, which > imposes an unnecessarily tight restriction on the r-base-core version.
Andreas, if you remember, the code pointed out by Sébastien is
the exact same reason we had to t-p-u r-cran-shiny during freeze, See
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1035428#15
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1035428#40
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1431956/accepted-r-cran-shiny-174dfsg-2deb12u1-source-into-testing-proposed-updates/
Best,
Nilesh
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