On 6 April 2013 at 12:58, Charles Plessy wrote: | Package: r-base-dev | Version: 3.0.0-2 | Severity: wishlist | Tags: patch | | Hi Dirk, | | in light with the recent discussion and suggestions about the rare API | breakages with R, I would like to propose the following: | | - R provides a virtual package, for instance, 'r-api-3'. This name is | modified (for instance to 'r-api-4', 'r-api-3b', etc.) when | backward-incompatible changes are introduced. | | - R library packages depend on that virtual package through the already | implemented R:Depends system, replacing the current convention of | depending on any version equal or superior to one of the r-base package | used at build time. | | This can be done with the attached patch, that I tested locally.
Thanks for proposing and testing this. I am not (yet?) sold: -- there is only one "provider" or r-api-* -- we actually do have a "greater than" relation -- the version numbers already solve this -- this was needed three times in ten years I think we are overengineering this. Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
