Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]
On 19 September 2017 at 14:15, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| > But you escalated it
|
| Mhm. I reported a bug with severity "normal". Maybe the language I used was
| too dramatic?
The whole bug report was, pardon my French, complete and utter nonsense. The
folks who needed to know already knew.
But you increased the visibiity, and as a consequence you have now "freed"
all testing users from a current version of R.
| > And the net effect is no current R in testing for a year. Really not a good
| > outcome.
|
| This could still be overcome by introducing versioned Breaks,
I will not introduce Breaks for 100+ packages. It will only create
unanticipated side effects I as the maintainer the have to clean up.
That is a firm no.
I will also stop with the completely useless thread now.
Dirk
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