Bug#868558: nmu: multiple r-* packages
On 9 September 2017 at 06:44, Niels Thykier wrote:
| Thanks to Sébastien and Andreas for explaining the issue.
Well, was it "explained" ? They both raised and stressed a hypothetical
issue: That "there might be siutations where a partial upgrade breaks"
We don't actually know whether this holds. This R 3.4.* change was not a
full-fledged ABI change.
| That is fine. Then (to my knowledge) your only option is an "ABI bump".
I still disagree, for this case.
We will likely need one for anticipated internal R changes by R 3.5.0.
| Until one of these solutions is applied, this bug is "wontfix" and
| r-base is blocked from migrating to testing.
I think this is a dissservice to our users.
Consider another data point. It so happens that we have informal backports
for both Debian and Ubuntu at all the CRAN mirrors:
https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html
I am not aware of anything breaking there either.
So I think this is blown out of proportion regarding the _potential_ partial
upgrade issue. We just don't know if it really applies.
Dirk
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