On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:53:10PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote: > On 28/09/2017 12:28, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > > Note that there are many arch:all R packages that will need sourceful upload > > (they are easy to identify on the transition tracker whose URL is above). > > Besides r-cran-nlp which doesn't show up in the tracker, I've found several > other arch:all packages that don't depend on r-api-3, but do pick up a > dependency on r-api-3.4 after a rebuild: This makes me wonder whether arch:all packages really need a dependency on r-api-*. If this value really tracks an API, as advertised, it makes sense. But if it actually tracks an ABI, as in the present case, then this situation is suboptimal and complicates transition. Maybe the best solution would therefore be to dissociate API and ABI tracking. Moreover, packages automatically pick up a versioned dependency on r-base-core. But this should not be necessary since we now have ABI tracking. It makes dependencies uselessly tight. Anyways, these (potential) improvements should probably wait for the next transition (planned in April if I understand correctly). -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Sébastien Villemot ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian Developer ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ http://sebastien.villemot.name ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ http://www.debian.org
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