Hi Andreas, On 30-06-2023 21:35, Andreas Tille wrote:
I'm not sure that we are in the right status to ask for a transition bug
Anytime is good to ask for a transition, particularly when the transition is already ongoing.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-r/2023/06/msg00025.html
In the end of this mail three options are listed which I simply
repeat here for your comfort:
1. implement the r-graphics-api-*
This might be a bit complex since for the moment I do not know
any means how to detect the packages that need this dependency
(and how we can implement this into dh-update-R) So this might
become technically complex in the first case
2. Just do a full r-api transition
This would work but affects more packages than strictly
necessary. My gut feeling says we will be able to finish this
earlier than 1. despite technically not perfect
3. Blindly ignore the fact that we need a transition and follow
the hackish workaround by using random versioned Depends as
suggested by Nilesh for r-cran-epi.
While I would love to hear the opinion of the release team what kind of transition (1. or 2.) should be prefered (if this is possible now at all since the affected package r-base 4.3.1 is in the archive since some time and also the most urgent packages are rebuild manually) or whether we need to fight manually through this mess (option 3.) I confirm that I agree with Johannes Ranke to prefer option 1. and do it "right" to be safe for the next time.
I don't think it should surprise anyone that we prefer it to be done right. Our preference is for option 1. However, if you can't get the pieces for that option in place in a reasonable time (say, a week or two, take some time to try), then we prefer to get *this* transition out of the way by means of option 2. I don't think it's in anybodies interest to waste time on option 3.
Sorry that this transition bug is that complex. I would have loved if it would went more coordinated but unfortunately that's not in my hands and I simply try to reassemble the pieces.
Thanks for communicating with us, much appreciated.I'll try to set a placeholder transition tracker up soon; for now, by lack of something better, will reflect option 2. We can update that once we have the pieces for option 1.
Paul
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