Bug#896667: transition: r-base-3.5
On 28 May 2018 at 14:08, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
| Control: tags -1 - confirmed
|
| On 28/05/18 13:08, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
| > Control: tags -1 confirmed
| >
| > On 23/04/18 13:57, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
| >> Package: release.debian.org
| >> Severity: normal
| >> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
| >> Usertags: transition
| >> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-r@lists.debian.org
| >>
| >> Dear Release Team,
| >>
| >> Please schedule a transition for R 3.5, which has just been uploaded to
| >> experimental.
| >>
| >> Due to changes in R internals, all R extension packages must be recompiled,
| >> that is 573 packages (of which 260 are arch:all, and will therefore need
| >> sourceful uploads).
| >>
| >> The transition will be managed jointly by Dirk Eddelbuettel and the Debian R
| >> Packages Team¹ (which ideally should be kept in CC of replies).
| >>
| >> We have not tried to recompile the 500+ packages, but we don’t expect any major
| >> issue. And should some arise, we stand ready to fix them.
| >
| > Go ahead with the transition.
|
| NACK. Let's wait for the curl transition, as this would clash with that one.
What is your expectation concerning the timeline?
R 3.5.0 is already over one month old. It would be good to have the
transition going.
Dirk
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