Ok -- I just put a pretty rough "cowboy" patch in which
- alters src/Makevars to not require the extra shared library - moves the dozen of so lines of actual C code from src/rcon/ into a file in src/ to have in the same C library See https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-cran-readr/commit/1d010ed32525fb2bebaf84e7bff7aae70927438f That builds and loads. Let's see what the autopkgtests say; it will give us some breathing time while upstream can figure out if this really needs to be a shared library. Static may work too and is simpler, including the code as I did even more so. There may be other goals I am unaware of. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org