On 25 July 2025 at 01:18, Santiago Vila wrote: | Hello. | | This package should propagate to testing to fix RC bug #1103204. | | However, it has r-base-core (>= 4.5.1-1) in its Depends line, while | r-base-core in trixie is at version 4.5.0-3, so the migration | will not happen in a natural way. | | After asking Dirk (maintainer of R packages, in CC) for advice about | this, it seems there are basically two ways to deal with this. | | A) Make an upload for trixie-proposed-updates. This would put the | package directly in trixie with >= trixie-version. | | B) Hardcode (>= 4.5.0-3) (or maybe 4.5.0-3~ or just 4.5.0) in the | control line, only for trixie, and only as a one-time thing. Dirk | tells me that in cases like this one, this would be ok, as R does not | really care about such minor versioning.
For added colour: I am aware of breakage with other applications built against R 4.4.* and linking to it now falling over of a missing symbol under R 4.5.* -- this happened famously with rstudio (outside of Debian). Changes within a minor version are known-compatible so compiling under R 4.5.1 but allowing R 4.5.0 as a runtime will work, and I offered Santiago to help with a NMU. Obviously not trying to either 'jump a gun' or stepping onto somebody's toes so if any of you as group maintainers want to deal with it I will merrily defer. Else I am happy to step in an help with a quick one-time override to debian/control depending on 'R (>= 4.5.0)' as opposed to the automagic fill-in from $rvers which will get us 4.5.1 which is only in unstable and not in testing. Cheers, Dirk | Please indicate if you (maintainers of rkward) are available to fix | this, because otherwise Dirk tells me he would be willing to NMU | the package to handle the issue. | | Thanks. -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] _______________________________________________ pkg-kde-extras mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-kde-extras
