Comment 5 for bug 248150

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We have 32 dapper packages which are potentially involved:

r-cran-abind
r-cran-acepack
r-cran-car
r-cran-cluster
r-cran-date
r-cran-design
r-cran-effects
r-cran-fbasics
r-cran-fcalendar
r-cran-fextremes
r-cran-fmultivar
r-cran-fportfolio
r-cran-gregmisc
r-cran-hdf5
r-cran-kernsmooth
r-cran-latticeextra
r-cran-lme4
r-cran-matrix
r-cran-misc3d
r-cran-multcomp
r-cran-mvtnorm
r-cran-nlme
r-cran-psy
r-cran-quadprog
r-cran-rgl
r-cran-rsprng
r-cran-sandwich
r-cran-snow
r-cran-statdataml
r-cran-strucchange
r-omegahat-ggobi
r-omegahat-rgtk

The ideal solution would be to implement a fix through hardy-update that would allow the installation to proceed without errors. This could be done either with a no-op postrm or moving the depends on r-base-core to a pre-depends.

However, the issue can easily be solved by the user by running the upgrade again (I tested this successfully on a dapper chroot).