Bug#896667: transition: r-base-3.5
On 30 May 2018 at 23:40, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
| Control: tags -1 confirmed
|
| On 28/05/18 15:00, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
| > On 28/05/18 14:32, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >>
| >> 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.
| >
| > This can go after the curl transition, which has just started. So whatever that
| > takes, which will depend on whether any packages fail to build and how long it
| > takes to solve them. curl was waiting for longer and is blocking other
| > transitions, so that's why it went first, but after that there should be no
| > blockers for R 3.5.
|
| curl migrated to testing today. Please go ahead with R 3.5.
Yay!! Thank you -- and r-base_3.5.0-3 is now in incoming awaiting inclusion
into unstable.
Dirk
| Emilio
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