[pkg-bioc] debian/ simplifications

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Sat Apr 21 14:47:38 UTC 2007


I made another change to r-cran.mk, and so far all packages 'just work'
by only source r-cran.mk.   The newest one was to have r-cran.mk grep for
'Priority: recommended' in the DESCRIPTION file and then switch to installing
into /usr/lib/R/library/ (where reommeneded packages go) rather than 
/usr/lib/R/site-library/

Are there other modifications we could or should address from r-cran.mk?
The 'repositories' idea is also implemeneted.  A few month ago I added
inclusin of debian/overrides for Lintian, if found.

Also, I no longer include the basically empty postinst/postrm. 

Lastly, one thing I find confusing when building the few dozen r-cran-*
packages I manually maintain:  Sometimes an R  package is NOT listed in
Depends: yet required under pbuilder (probably due to LazyLoad or
something).  How reliable is the Depends/Suggests information in DESCRIPTION
for us?

Cheers, Dirk

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                                                  -- Thomas A. Edison



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