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Re: R 4.0.0 coming in four weeks



On 27 March 2020 at 21:30, Dylan Aïssi wrote:
| Hi Dirk,
| 
| Le ven. 27 mars 2020 à 20:09, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> a écrit :
| >
| > First steps I have taken:
| >
| >  - I made a first release available in "experimental". [3] And I also changed
| >    the tag to r-api-4.0.
| >
| >  - As I and others also work on Ubuntu (directly or also via Travis CI and
| >    alike) I also created a new PPA 'r-4.0' and populated it with the build,
| >    so far only for 18.04 ("bionic"). [4][5]
| 
| Thanks for this!
| 
| > We probably need some sort of plan for rebuilding all our packages / staging
| > some things etc pp.  I am open to any and all suggestions; I am still not all
| > that familiar with how to 'best' proceed both within Debian, and for the
| > 'backports'.
| 
| To perform the transition from r-api-3.5 to r-api-4.0, we should
| follow the recommendation here [1] and open a bug against the virtual
| package "release.debian.org" like Sébastien did it here [2] for the
| previous transition.

Ah, yes, I vaguely remember that. Upload to 'experimental' is done. Of
course, we have no new SO name so no 'new queue'.  The wiki page does not
really cover our case.  Do I file the bug now?  

Dirk

| Best,
| Dylan
| 
| [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions
| [2] https://bugs.debian.org/896667

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