[R-sig-Debian] R upgrade fails on r-cran-class

[Johannes Ranke]

Hi Edwin, hi Dirk, hi all,

thanks for tracking it down - the r-cran-class package simply did not build 
over here because of a missing build dependency on r-cran-mass (my build 
system with pbuilder is picky with this).

The packages are on their way to CRAN now.

Dirk - don't you need this build dependency in your r-cran-class package? I 
wonder why the package builds at your end but not at mine without 
intervention.

Kind regards,

Johannes

Am Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2010, um 19:05:23 schrieb Edwin Groot:
> Hello all,
> I encountered a problem using the recommended backport method to
> upgrade R from 2.7.1 to 2.11.1 in a Debian lenny system.
> r-base cannot install, and I tracked it down to a r-cran-class
> dependency:
> 
> # apt-get install r-cran-class
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Package r-cran-class is not available, but is referred to by another
> package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> E: Package r-cran-class has no installation candidate
> 
> I installed backports of r-base-core and r-base-dev, but this did not
> help the problem. Do I need to reinstall Debian?
> 
> Diagnostic information:
> # uname -a
> Linux MyNotebook 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 12 22:12:20 UTC 2010
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> > sessionInfo()
> 
> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
>  [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C              LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
>  [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Edwin