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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