Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]
Am Montag, 18. September 2017, 10:39:02 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> On 18 September 2017 at 22:41, Charles Plessy wrote:
> | Hello everybody,
> |
> | I just wanted to relay the information that some R packages will need a
> | rebuild after the next upgrade of R. (see the email forwarded below.)
>
> Common knowledge. I referenced it half-a-dozen times in the damned thread
> about the binNMUs.
This (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868558) had
escaped my attention, maybe others on this list had not seen it either?
> The ALTREP branch for R was announced as coming earlier
> in the year, and is now in the r-devel master branch (ie R upstream).
>
> We will switch to r-api-4 then which will finally break the effing block
For what it's worth (not much, my github commit history is not too
impressive), I really have a lot of respect for this effort of the release
team to avoid known breakage.
> posed upon by the release team in response to the 'R 3.4.0 has a change' bug
> report by Johannes.
The R 3.4.0 you uploaded to unstable broke packages from existing
installations (unstable). If you now say that I reported a change, not a bug,
I could be tempted to find this offensive. But I do prefer to thank you and
Andreas for fixing the issue.
As a backport maintainer for CRAN, I would have preferred an upload to
experimental (if you wanted to upload right away), and then an ABI change or a
list of Breaks before the upload to unstable.
But now I am really glad that it seems we will have everything sorted out in
April! It would be cool if we then could continue establishing r-base in
debian-backports.
Cheers,
Johannes
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