Re: r-api-3.4 (Was: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel) object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-24 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 24 September 2017 at 22:20, Charles Plessy wrote: | Le Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 11:58:20AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : | > | > May I assume that some of you who sp tiredlessly argued for it will now liase | > with the release team to get 500+ forcefully rebuilt? | | > r-base

Re: r-api-3.4 (Was: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel) object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 11:58:20AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : > > May I assume that some of you who sp tiredlessly argued for it will now liase > with the release team to get 500+ forcefully rebuilt? > r-base (3.4.1.20170921-1) unstable; urgency=medium > > * Initial rc build (r73337)

Re: r-api-3.4 (Was: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel) object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-24 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 24 September 2017 at 13:37, Andreas Tille wrote: | On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 11:58:20AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > r-base (3.4.1.20170921-1) unstable; urgency=medium | | > * Initial rc build (r73337) of R 3.4.2 expected for Sep 28 |

Re: r-api-3.4 (Was: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel) object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-24 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 11:58:20AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > r-base (3.4.1.20170921-1) unstable; urgency=medium > * Initial rc build (r73337) of R 3.4.2 expected for Sep 28 BTW, shouldn't this rather target to experimental?

Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On Wed, 2017-09-20 at 11:34 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > It consists in bumping the "r-api-3" value to "r-api-3.4", or "r-api- > 3a" (or basically whatever you want, as long as it is different from > previous values). > > This takes less than 5 minutes of your time, is clean and robust, and

Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-20 Thread Sébastien Villemot
On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 08:23:30AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 03:25:56PM +0200, Johannes Ranke wrote: > > > The whole bug report was, pardon my French, complete and utter nonsense. > > > > Wow. Complete and utter. A bug report affecting 100+ packages that was > >

Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 03:25:56PM +0200, Johannes Ranke wrote: > > The whole bug report was, pardon my French, complete and utter nonsense. > > Wow. Complete and utter. A bug report affecting 100+ packages that was merged > with two independent bug reports (861684, 862969). And that took from

Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-19 Thread Johannes Ranke
Am Dienstag, 19. September 2017, 07:40:19 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > 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,

Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
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

Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-19 Thread Johannes Ranke
> But you escalated it Mhm. I reported a bug with severity "normal". Maybe the language I used was too dramatic? > 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, that could be removed then

Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 19 September 2017 at 11:07, Johannes Ranke wrote: | Am Montag, 18. September 2017, 10:39:02 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: | > Common knowledge. I referenced it half-a-dozen times in the damned thread | > about the binNMUs. | | This (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868558)

Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-19 Thread Johannes Ranke
Am Montag, 18. September 2017, 10:39:02 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: > On 18 September 2017 at 22:41, Charles Plessy wrote: > | Hello everybody, > | > | I just wanted to relay the information that some R packages will need a > | rebuild after the next upgrade of R. (see the email forwarded

Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-18 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 18 September 2017 at 22:41, Charles Plessy wrote: | Hello everybody, | | I just wanted to relay the information that some R packages will need a | rebuild after the next upgrade of R. (see the email forwarded below.) Common knowledge. I referenced it half-a-dozen times in the damned thread

Re: Upcoming new round of R package rebuilds [FWD: [Rd] R-devel object header changes that require reinstalling packages]

2017-09-18 Thread Johannes Ranke
Uff, thanks for letting us know in advance!! I believe this means another fresh repository in CRAN for the corresponding R release... Johannes Am Montag, 18. September 2017, 22:41:04 CEST schrieb Charles Plessy: > Hello everybody, > > I just wanted to relay the information that some R packages