Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> writes: > A new major release R 3.0.0 will come out on Wednesday April 3rd, as usual > according the the release plan and announcements [1]. > > It contains major internal changes [2] and requires rebuilds of all R > packages. As I usually do, I started packaging pre-releases and rc > candidates [3] based on March 24, 27 and 30 snapshots. > > Michael Rutter, who tirelessly backports (most of) my Debian R packages to > Ubuntu, has also made builds of these R packages [4]. > > As for unstable, we have an issue as essentially all reverse-dependencies > that are R packages will need to be rebuilt [5]. On testing, I get for > 158 packages from `apt-cache rdepends r-base-core | grep -c r-cran-`.
I don't think such transitions should be done without any coordination[a]. In addition there's still the freeze... [a] <http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions> > and I am CCing everybody now to see if they could please rebuild the packages > within a week or so. Come next weekend we'll review and switch to direct > email pings. If they just need to be rebuilt, there are binNMUs. However the binaries seem to claim they would also work with the newer R versions? I looked at r-cran-rsymphony and it has Depends: [...], r-base-core (>= 2.14.1) which would still be satisfied by r-base-core 3.0.0~20130330-1... Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bo9ztrww....@deep-thought.43-1.org
