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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 3 June 2010 at 22:04, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| 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.

Coincidentally, I just got a bug report about that and fixed it this morning:

r-cran-class (7.3-2-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control: Added r-cran-mass to (Build-)Depends: (Closes: #584340)

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>  Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:07:29 -0500


Dirk


| 
| 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
| 
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-- 
  Regards, Dirk