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New Debian packages using /usr/share/R as well as /usr/lib/R

3 messages · Douglas Bates, Dirk Eddelbuettel

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Dirk Eddelbuettel
# 
R always had all its files below /usr/lib/R, which isn't perfectly in line
with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). We did get some bug reports on
this, and I tried to argue for a while that this was consistent upstream
behaviour etc pp I would expect the issue to come back again.

Brian Ripley had made some changes to R a few months ago which allow to split
doc/, include/ and share/ off into /usr/share/R.  The set of R 2.2.1-3
packages now available at
	http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/debian/
uses this. Ans while "It works for me" so far, I would appreciate additional
testing.  

Thanks, Dirk
Douglas Bates
# 
I should know this but ...

Is it possible to add some version of the URL you give below to
/etc/apt/sources.list so that I can use

wajig build r-base-core

to download and build the new package?
On 1/16/06, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
Dirk Eddelbuettel
# 
Doug,

Sorry, forgot to say that this isn't apt-get get'able.
On 16 January 2006 at 10:29, Douglas Bates wrote:
| I should know this but ...
| 
| Is it possible to add some version of the URL you give below to
| /etc/apt/sources.list so that I can use
| 
| wajig build r-base-core
| 
| to download and build the new package?

Possibly, but someone has to tell me how to build Packages* and Releases*
files. 

In this case, could you just fetch the .diff.gz by hand and apply it to
r-base_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz by hand?

I also forgot to show the draft changelog, now below.

Regards, Dirk


r-base (2.2.1-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Re-wrote parts of debian/* to take advantage of recent upstream changes
    permitting installation of (most) files outside of /usr/lib/R;
  * debian/rules: Use configure options 
      --datadir=/usr/share/R/share and 
      --includedir=/usr/share/R/include
    as well as 'make install' targets
      rsharedir, rincludedir, and rdocdir
  * debian/r-{base-html.{files,dirs}, doc-pdf.{files,links},
    doc-html.{file,links}}:
    updated accordingly to refer to /usr/share/R/* instead of /usr/lib/R
  * Architecture-independent files of r-base-core (apart from the actual
    default packages below /usr/lib/R/library/) now reside below
    /usr/share/R					(Closes: #300765)
  
  * debian/control: Added Build-Depends: for libx11-dev, libxt-dev, x-dev
    (though the existing Build-Depends on tcl/tk effectively cover this).
    Credits for the suggestion go to the xlibs-split-check script .

 -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>  Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:11:34 -0600