Commit 8692db2c authored by Dylan Aïssi's avatar Dylan Aïssi
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Add a sentence about the Debian R team

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		<sect2 id="r-packages">

			<title>R packages</title>

			<para>

				Debian R packages should be maintained within the <ulink url="https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/r-pkg-team">Debian R Packages Team</ulink>.

			</para>

			<para>

				<ulink url="https://packages.debian.org/r-base-core">GNU R</ulink> sometimes introduces backward incompatibilities, so the current practice is to make packages depend on versions equal or higher to the one against which they were built.  When using <code>r-base-dev</code>, this can be acheived by adding the substitution variable <code>${R:Depends}</code> in the <emphasis>Depends</emphasis> field of the binary package.

			</para>