Re: r-api-3.4 (Was: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel) object header changes that require reinstalling packages]
On 24 September 2017 at 22:20, Charles Plessy wrote:
| Le Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 11:58:20AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
| >
| > May I assume that some of you who sp tiredlessly argued for it will now liase
| > with the release team to get 500+ forcefully rebuilt?
|
| > r-base (3.4.1.20170921-1) unstable; urgency=medium
| >
| > * Initial rc build (r73337) of R 3.4.2 expected for Sep 28
| >
| > * debian/control: Package r-base-core now 'Provides: r-api-3.4' per the
| > Debian Release team. I still consider this to be wrong (as there was
| > no API change) but my hands are tied here.
|
| Thanks a lot Dirk for doing this. (Note that since the string
| 'r-api-3.4' is entirely arbitrary, it can be changed to something
| technically more neutral, like 'r-debian-epoch-3.4' or whatever is
| better).
No, not entirely arbitrary. It needs to match this line in r-cran.mk (indented
for readability and 80 cols here)
rapiversion := $(shell dpkg-query -W -f='$${Provides}' r-base-core | \
grep -o 'r-api[^, ]*')
so it actually has to start with 'r-api'.
Dirk
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