On 19 September 2017 at 14:15, Johannes Ranke wrote: | > But you escalated it | | Mhm. I reported a bug with severity "normal". Maybe the language I used was | too dramatic?
The whole bug report was, pardon my French, complete and utter nonsense. The folks who needed to know already knew. But you increased the visibiity, and as a consequence you have now "freed" all testing users from a current version of R. | > And the net effect is no current R in testing for a year. Really not a good | > outcome. | | This could still be overcome by introducing versioned Breaks, I will not introduce Breaks for 100+ packages. It will only create unanticipated side effects I as the maintainer the have to clean up. That is a firm no. I will also stop with the completely useless thread now. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org