On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 12:48:08AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Philipp Kern wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:33:46PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > I cannot influence the R release cycle which happens within our freeze. As > > > have a few previous R releases, and none of those created any trouble. > > > > Thanks for trading the R release cycle with Debian's and for delaying the > > release. The harm has already been done, so somebody should probably go > > and create a transition tracker for it? > > IMO it's important to remember that it's fundamentally the release team > that is at fault for problems here, not the R maintainer. Unstable has > already been frozen for much longer than is in any way reasonable for > either development of Debian, users of Debian unstable, or upstreams > whose current software is either not being packaged at all or is only in > experimental. Least funny april fools email ever. Seriously. You're joking, right? > > I've personally seen as upstream many users suffering from problems > caused by old version in unstable (and had to deal with those problems > caused by Debian). And as a Debian user I've suffered in multiple cases > from outdated software myself; latest was just today when I noticed that > Debian's GDB version is too old to understand the default debug > information format produced by current GCC. I've used Debian because I > think that much of the packaging has been done well technically. But > releases have never been Debian's strong point, and when you have to > compile basic software like GDB yourself it's hard to recommend the > distro for development either (in this case there was no working version > in experimental either; having it only there would have been better than > manual compiling but not in any way adequate IMO). > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] 1364766488.1928.22.camel@glyph.nonexistent.invalid">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] 1364766488.1928.22.camel@glyph.nonexistent.invalid > -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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