Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: transition X-Debbugs-Cc: debia...@lists.debian.org
R 4.0.0 will be released on April 24. The upstream team always follows a well-publicised scheduled which started yesterday with the first 'alpha' release candidate, which I uploaded to experimental [1] R does change internals every now and then with the annual releases; this is a major one which will require rebuilds of all packages. The transition will be managed jointly by R package maintainer (myself) and the Debian R Packages Team. Using the 'debian-r' list (as in the CC above) is an efficient way to reach everybody. We have managed similar transitions before with R 3.4.0 and R 3.5.0. Note that last year's main release, R 3.6.0, did *not* require a rebuild hence the r-api-3.5 entry in the ben file below. Ben file: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- title = "r-base"; is_affected = .depends ~ "r-api-3.5" | .depends ~ "r-api-4.0"; is_good = .depends ~ "r-api-4.0"; is_bad = .depends ~ "r-api-3.5"; ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special shoutout to Dylan and especially Graham for double-checking required steps here. Cheers, Dirk [1] https://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/r-base -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org