Bug#868558: nmu: multiple r-* packages
On 9 September 2017 at 14:12, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
| On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 06:48:12AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > 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.
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| I made the following experiment:
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| - started from a minimal stretch chroot
| - installed r-base and r-cran-spatial
| - upgraded r-base to the version from sid (but not r-cran-spatial)
Come one. That's the situation of EVERY known bug in testing fixed in unstable.
You explicitly chose to NOT get the fix, to then state it wasn't fixed.
I am waiting for you to also enforce use of 'rm -i' over 'rm'.
I am done. This way too dogmatic for my taste. I feel sorry about the users
who will not get access to current, updated and bug free version of R because
of this. A wrong decision.
Dirk
| - ran the example described in #861333:
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| $ R -e "library(spatial); example(surf.gls)"
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| then I get a crash with the error message "object 'VR_frset' not found".
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| So this confirms that partial upgrades are indeed broken.
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| Best,
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