Control: severity -1 normal
I am changing this back because
a) there is no general bug in R 4.3.1, and there newer was
there were a few packages requiring an update to the new graphics engine
version (as the packages choose to call R_GE_checkVersionOrDie, it is
coming from their side, not the R package imposing/causing a break)
filing bug reports against the affected package resolved the issue as
expected, if you look at
https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=r-base
there is not a single graphics related issue
but I can argue this issue til I am blue in the face and not get
anywhere so the R package now provides r-graphics-engine-*
b) note that the remaining autopkgtest breaks have nothing to do with the
graphics engine version, and the change I was asked to make (and which I
accomodated) will not help
however, the error is not with R just like the one you posted in your
bug report was not:
Error in `vectbl_assign(x[[j]], i, recycled_value[[j]])`: DLL requires
the use of native symbols
this is almost surely intra-package and needs to be resolved by those
package
For both reasons the bug report should be closed but I am now only dialing it
down to 'normal'. r-base is a bystander here, and the messenger that is
being shot at.
We of course do use R 4.3.* just fine with 21,000 r-cran-* binary packages in
r2u. If one keeps the package current with CRAN all is well. It is not my
fault if some other maintainers claim they (and I paraphrase, but it is all
in the BTS) "have too many packages to keep them current". That is an issue
for which filing bugs again r-base does not, and cannot, help.
Dirk
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