Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package required but not available: ‘arrow’

2024-02-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 26 February 2024 at 09:19, Simon Urbanek wrote: | [requiring increased is] best way [..] and certainly the only good practice. No, not really. Another viewpoint, which is implemented in another project I contribute to, is where a version + build_revision tuple exists if, and only if, the

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Package required but not available: ‘arrow’

2024-02-25 Thread Simon Urbanek
To quote Rob: "Version numbers are cheap" The way the policy is worded it is clear that you cannot complain if you didn't increase it as you are taking a risk. Also the the incoming FTP won't let you upload same version twice so it wasn't really a problem until more recently when there are