Re: R 4.0.0 coming in four weeks

[Graham Inggs <ginggs@debian.org>]

Hi Dirk

On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 at 02:25, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:
> Thanks for that reminder, it is slowly coming back. I have to look at the
> 'ben' file snippet again and see if the current pre-release version number
> can be made to fit so that we do not have to wait for 4.0.0-1.    A strict
> greater than the current 3.6.3-2 (plus wiggle room for updates to this one)
> may do, or an explicit '>= 3.6.3.20200326' to include today's version.

I don't think we need to worry about exact versions for the ben file.
I've adapted Sébastien's one below.  Do I have the correct versions?

title = "r-base";
is_affected = .depends ~ "r-api-3.5" | .depends ~ "r-api-4.0";
is_good = .depends ~ "r-api-4.0";
is_bad = .depends ~ "r-api-3.5";

I think the 3.6.3.20200326 version could be very confusing for our derivatives.
I recall we chatted about naming them e.g. 4.0.0~20200326 and I also
recall the tilde in the build directory name being a problem.  Do you
know if this has been resolved?

Regards
Graham