[R-sig-Debian] Configuration problem installing backport to jessie

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 2 March 2017 at 14:36, Jim Ottaway wrote:
| I came across this problem moving from the standard jessie package to
| the backport:
| 
|     $ sudo dpkg --configure r-base-core   
|     Setting up r-base-core (3.3.2-1~jessiecran.0) ...
|     Preserving user changes to /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/R (renamed from /etc/bash_completion.d/R)...
|     mv: cannot stat ‘/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/R’: No such file or directory
|     dpkg: error processing package r-base-core (--configure):
|      subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
|     Errors were encountered while processing:
|      r-base-core
| 
| I managed to fix this by manually copying the R completion script
| /etc/bash_completion.d/R to /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/
| 
| I thought I'd best post something about this in case either I haven't
| actually fixed it or it means something in the backporting is slightly
| wrong with respect to bash completion.

Backports are unofficial, and I have limited time.

But if you can work on a test case / improve on this / provide a patch I will
of course integrate it.

Dirk

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