[R-sig-Debian] r-base-dev to be removed

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 6 November 2009 at 16:39, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| On 6 November 2009 at 17:14, Prasenjit Kapat wrote:
| | A recent dist-upgrade on Debian/unstable results in:
| | r-base-dev is to be removed. I think these are the culprits:
| | 
| | libreadline5 (5.2.6 => 5.2-7)
| | libreadline5-dev  (5.2.6 => 5.2-7)
| | 
| | Holding them holds back r-base-dev as well.
| 
| But r-base-dev has a depends on libreadline-dev, not libreadline5-dev.  Could
| it be something else?

Seems like the r-base-dev package is ahead of the libreadline-dev
transition. Explicitly installing libreadlibe-dev (now from libreadline6)
helped Prasenjit. 

Dirk

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