Re: R 4.2.0 suggests a rebuild of graphics packages
On 24 April 2022 at 22:07, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
| On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 4:27 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:
| >
| >
| > On 24 April 2022 at 13:47, Graham Inggs wrote:
| > | On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 at 17:15, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:
| > | > so packages providing a graphics device should be rebuilt. We discussed this
| > | > previously (as R 4.1.0 also updated the graphics device capabilities) and I
| > | > still think it is not worth defining a new r-api-* alike tag for this as it
| > | > really only affects a good handful of packages.
| > |
| > | Please provide a list of the affected packages.
| >
| > I would if I had one.
|
| Easiest way to find out is to grep for calls to
| R_GE_checkVersionOrDie:
| https://github.com/search?q=org%3Acran+R_GE_checkVersionOrDie&type=code
+1
I had a similar though that it should be discoverable from code use but
didn't know that call. Nice. (And as a maintainer of packages I do of
course have some idea about which of those are providing graphics devices.)
Dirk
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