Re: Update on R 3.0.0 migration (Was: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R)
- To: Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>
- Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>, Michael Rutter <mar36@psu.edu>, Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>, Debian Developers <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>, Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Philip Rinn <rinni@gmx.net>, Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>, The Debichem Group <debichem-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, tfry@users.sourceforge.net
- Subject: Re: Update on R 3.0.0 migration (Was: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R)
- From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
- Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 19:45:31 -0500
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On 6 April 2013 at 21:55, Julian Gilbey wrote:
| > R> print(todo[ order(todo[,2]), ], row.names=FALSE)
| > pkg maint
| > r-cran-erm jdg@debian.org
| > r-cran-raschsampler jdg@debian.org
|
| I uploaded these to unstable on Friday lunchtime, and they were
| accepted into unstable on Friday afternoon; I'm unclear why they are
| still in your list? Did I do something wrong?
|
| Oh yes, I clearly did. Even though I built it in a chroot with
| r-base-dev 3.0.0-2 installed, I forgot to update the Depends lines in
| the control files.
|
| So something doesn't make sense somewhere: if my package doesn't care
| which version of R it's building against, but R itself cares, then
| surely there should be some way of querying r-base-dev during the
Dunno -- we only have one r-base-core / r-base-dev. I think if you had
updated you pbuilder chroot, you would have gotten the new R -- satisfying
both the Depends you had, and the Depends you should have had.
| build process to enquire which version is required? It is almost
| certainly too late to do anything about this for wheezy, but it would
| be good to think about doing something for wheezy+1. Ideally, this
| would be by creating a misc substvar so that instead of having to
| specify the version of r-base-core in the Depends: field, it could be
| specified just as ${misc:Depends} and then filled in automatically.
If someone could contribute this...
| Anyway, I'm rebuilding them now with the dependencies updated to
| 3.0.0-2.
Thanks.
Dirk
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