Re: R 4.2.0 suggests a rebuild of graphics packages
Am Montag, 25. April 2022, 00:37:15 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> 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.)
Yes, very nice indeed! We can use this on codesearch.debian.net [1] and get a
succinct list:
r-cran-ragg, r-cran-vdiffr, r-cran-svglite, r-cran-magick, r-cran-tikzdevice,
r-cran-cairo
Johannes
[1] https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=R_GE_checkVersionOrDie&perpkg=1
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