On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 11:45:15AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > 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 am a little unclear what is required; is a binary rebuild sufficient, or is some change in the source code necessary? If the former, would it not be better just to ask the buildd administrators for a binary rebuild as opposed to having a new source version just for this? Julian -- 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/20130405075352.gc6...@d-and-j.net
