Hi Andreas,
* Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org> [2025-03-01 22:39]:
if you can provide a patch / MR I'm fine to apply it but currently
I have no more free spoons to work on this.
The real question here is how to solve #1089197, i.e. how to encode
the package relationships without depending on the apt cache
(grep-aptavail or rmadison or anything else that is network related).
I have no experience with R packages so I would need some input here. >Possible ways I see are:
1. Don't add relations automatically and let the maintainer do it.
2. Always add all package names from the DISCRIPTION file to Suggest:
From my understanding this would need some mapping from the R
package name to the Debian package name and maybe a rename of the >Debian packages to simplify the mapping.
3. Add the list of R package in Debian to dh-r and use it to convert
the package name. Note that this needs to be updated whenever a R >packages is added or removed in Debian. (This is what dh-python has, >afair).
From my POV, then only option that is viable in autodep8 is 1, so I'm inclined to go with the MR linked above. I understand that at this point in the release cycle this could be too intrusive, so I would do that after trixie is out.
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