[R-sig-Debian] Problem with Ubuntu bionic R 3.5

[Ulrich Leuchtmann]

Hi Michael.

I fear I'm becoming a pain in your back. Sorry.

The problem with the "Components" and "Suite" name in the "InRelease" 
file for bionic-cran35 has been solved. *Many thanks for that.* However, 
"sudo apt-get install r-base" creates an error message (again here the 
German version):

ulrich using linuxdesktop:~$ sudo apt-get install r-base
Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut.
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig
Einige Pakete konnten nicht installiert werden. Das kann bedeuten, dass
Sie eine unmögliche Situation angefordert haben oder, wenn Sie die
Unstable-Distribution verwenden, dass einige erforderliche Pakete noch
nicht erstellt wurden oder Incoming noch nicht verlassen haben.
Die folgenden Informationen helfen Ihnen vielleicht, die Situation zu lösen:

Die folgenden Pakete haben unerfüllte Abhängigkeiten:
  r-base : Hängt ab von: r-recommended (= 3.5.0-1bionic) soll aber nicht 
installiert werden
E: Probleme können nicht korrigiert werden, Sie haben zurückgehaltene 
defekte Pakete.

That's something new. I know, I could probably solve this problem by

     sudo apt-get install r-base r-recommended

But somehow I am puzzled that r-base now _depends_ on r-recommended. Is 
that the way it is supposed to be now? In this case I think the 
installation instruction on CRAN would need to get updated. Or is this 
an error in the dependencies?

Best regards

Uli




Am 17.06.2018 um 03:33 schrieb Michael Rutter:
>
>
> On 06/16/2018 09:22 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>>
>> Ulrich,
>>
>> On 16 June 2018 at 15:04, Ulrich Leuchtmann wrote:
>> | Hi Dirk.
>> |
>> | I saw you installed a new release. Unfortunately the problem mentioned
>> | below does persist.
>>
>> The Ubuntu side of things is mostly Michael's work.
>>   | I know this is perhaps a minor issue, as users report they can 
>> install
>> | manually (see below). But under strict installation policies this can
>> | create an issue. Synaptic is refusing to install. The German error
>> | message is
>> |
>> | "Die Änderungen konnten nicht angewendet werden! Bitte zuerst die
>> | Probleme mit defekten Paketen beheben."
>> |
>> | In English this should read something like "The change could not be
>> | applied. Solve problems with broken packages first."
>>
>> I can still read my native tongue :)
>>
>> I think Michael works mostly with virtual machines where the 
>> installation is
>> not as minimal. We can (and should have) tested this some more with for
>> example a Docker container.  Sorry about the inconvenience but I 
>> think we can
>> get this sorted out in a few days.
>>
>> Dirk
>
> My apologizes, I had an error in the apt configuration file.  I have 
> corrected the error and tested it in docker.  Should resolve itself 
> the next time the CRAN servers sync.
>
> Michael
>
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