Re: r-base-core upload to unstable does not respect freeze policy
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 07:17:59AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Santiago,
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:24:11PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > So, would this patch to the current r-base package improve things if
> > applied to the version in unstable?
> > [...]
>
> While this would create a versioned dependency relation which would
> allow to migrate r-cran-epi to testing I'm personally lacking the
> technical knowledge whether this is the correct solution. From my point
> of view the correct approach would be to create an r-base-core package
> which declares a stable ABI and packages should depend from the ABI
> version. However, its way to late for implementing this in Jessie and
> the R maintainer is not willing to do this anyway (at least he was not
> when we discussed this in Wheezy freeze time[1]).
I was proposing this patch not as a fix for Bug #704805, but as a way
to avoid the big mess created by the upload of R 3.1.2 for unstable.
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