Bug#955211: release.debian.org: Transition r-base for 4.0.0
On 29 April 2020 at 13:23, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| R 4.0.0 was released as scheduled on Friday, source packages have been in
| experimental since Friday too.
|
| There is one build failure on ppc64el but we now know what causes it so a bug
| fix from upstream should be forthcoming shortly. The bug can also be
| circumvented by (on that platform only) configuring with --disable-long-double.
|
| As such, we're ready, so I may I would like to nudge you towards considering
| a start for this transition. R is reasonably widely used language that is
| very well supported in Debian, and it would be good to have this updated
| upstream version be part of Debian testing and the next release.
New release 4.0.0-2 also builds on ppc64el (by disabling long double support,
which upstream may also make the default for this platform) and is ready.
Please schedule a transition for r-base.
I will then upload 4.0.0-3 to unstable as soon as I get your green light.
Cheers, Dirk
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