Re: r-cran-dosnow fix for 700498 cannot migrate to testing
On 2013-02-28 20:57, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> Hi Niels,
>
> On 28 February 2013 at 20:37, Niels Thykier wrote:
> | Hi Dirk,
> |
> | The fix for #700498 is currently stuck in unstable due to a dependency
> | on a versioned dependency on r-base (or an binary built by r-base). At
> | this point we are not ready to accept the changes to r-base for Wheezy.
> | So, I was hoping that we convince you to upload a fix for #700498 to
> | testing-proposed-updates.
>
> Sure -- always happy to help the releases.
>
Thanks for your prompt reply, it is much appreciated. :)
> But could you be a tiny bit more explicit and tell me what you want me to
> fix, where I need to upload, etc or I may get this messed.
>
> The changelog doesn't show me what I did wrong:
>
Sure, but you have not done anything wrong in your r-cran-dosnow upload.
It is just that we would like the missing r-cran-snow dependency bug to
be fixed in testing and we cannot take it via unstable[1].
> r-cran-dosnow (1.0.6-2) unstable; urgency=low
>
> * debian/control: Added r-cran-snow to Depends (Closes: #700498)
>
> * debian/control: Set Build-Depends: to current R version
> * debian/control: Set Standards-Version: to current version
>
> -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:33:14 -0600
>
> Are you asking for a build under a different R version?
Basically, yes. A build of r-cran-dosnow in a testing chroot.
> Couldn't you just make a binary NMU with a different Build-Depends?
>
To my knowledge we (still) cannot do binNMUs of a package in a different
suite. But even if we could, we still need a source upload of
r-cran-dosnow because it has a versioned Build-Depends on r-cran-dev
that can only be satisfied in sid. :)
> We have an informal policy to release r-cran-* packages _for unstable_. So I
> always encode the then-current version via Build-Depends. On Feb 13, that
> will have been R 2.15.2 aka r-base-core_2.15.2.
>
In this case, we need a one-time exception to that policy and the
package must be built in a clean chroot using only packages from testing.
> "Upstream" for r-cran-dosnow has much weaker requirements. It would probably
> build on stable... but I frankly do not know where to upload to. The
> version in unstable has the correct control file.
>
> Dirk, generally busy
>
> |
> | ~Niels
> |
>
Please target "testing-proposed-updates" (instead of "unstable" or "sid").
~Niels
[1] ... or rather, if we were to take it, it would include a new
upstream release of r-base and we are not ready to accept that.
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