Multiple private git repo dependencies got error

[niheaven]

When I develop some package that depends on multiple other packages that live on private repo, I got some error that remotes::install_deps() only install last one and omit others.

I use the following to add deps:

usethis::use_dev_package("a", remote = "git::http://private.repo/git/a.git")
usethis::use_dev_package("b", remote = "git::http://private.repo/git/b.git")

And the DESCRIPTION likes:

Imports:
    a,
    b
Remotes:
    git::http://private.repo/git/a.git,
    git::http://private.repo/git/b.git

But when I try to install_deps and actually install the developed package, R only install dep package b, twice 😭

install_deps()
# Skipping 2 packages not available: a, b
# Downloading git repo http://private.repo/git/b.git
# xxxxxxxxxxx
# Downloading git repo http://private.repo/git/b.git
# xxxxxxxxxxx

What's wrong? Or is it a bug?

[jennybc]

This feels like an issue that belongs on the remotes package. Unless usethis is writing incorrectly to DESCRIPTION. But that doesn't seem to be the case.

It could also be a usage problem, i.e. this is mis-specified "git::http://private.repo/git/b.git".

[niheaven]

When there is only one private repo, install_deps works well. So maybe syntax is correct, I thought.

I try to figure out related code that may cause this error, but it jumps in and out too many packages and C code. So I really need developer's help😓