Then I argue that the model is wrong. Platforms change all the time, but package release and package testing are two separate operations. I also guess it hardly scales. If the number of packages were to increase, you can’t rebuild and retest them all every time a linux distribution changes something and you want to retest the whole lot against it.
-- Stefano Borini Principal Analytical Tools Developer AstraZeneca R&D BioPharmaceuticals | Data Science & AI | Early Biometrics & Statistical Innovation From: Iñaki Ucar <iu...@fedoraproject.org> Date: Thursday, 17 March 2022 at 10:16 To: "Borini, Stefano" <stefano.bor...@astrazeneca.com> Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org>, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com>, "r-package-devel@r-project.org" <r-package-devel@r-project.org> Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Ensuring permanence and SHA consistency of released CRAN packages for validated software On Thu, 17 Mar 2022 at 10:08, Borini, Stefano <stefano.bor...@astrazeneca.com> wrote: > > Sure, but why rebuild the package that has already been built? Because the rest of the stack evolves and changes (compilers, shared libraries, other packages), so you need to periodically (or, better and more efficiently, each time a dependency changes) rebuild stuff to check that it still works. Linux distributions have dedicated services for this (see e.g. [1]). [1] https://koschei.fedoraproject.org/<https://koschei.fedoraproject.org> -- Iñaki Úcar ________________________________ AstraZeneca UK Limited is a company incorporated in England and Wales with registered number:03674842 and its registered office at 1 Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, CB2 0AA. This e-mail and its attachments are intended for the above named recipient only and may contain confidential and privileged information. If they have come to you in error, you must not copy or show them to anyone; instead, please reply to this e-mail, highlighting the error to the sender and then immediately delete the message. For information about how AstraZeneca UK Limited and its affiliates may process information, personal data and monitor communications, please see our privacy notice at www.astrazeneca.com<https://www.astrazeneca.com> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel