On Thu, 27 Apr 2017, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > I don't know, and I tend not to run dated r-base-core packages.
I'll try to check this out later. > Is that what debian/control ensures? Cool; I didn't check to see whether the substitution variable had been updated. > I uploaded one beta build to experimental. Approximately nobody uses > those. Yeah, that's always a problem. > The 'blocking' mechanism really works. R 3.4.0 will not seep into > testing. The problem isn't that R won't enter testing, but that any package which builds against R has to be rebuilt using the R in testing and uploaded to testing-proposed-updates. That's a pretty painful thing to have to do. [Luckily, R is leaf enough that there aren't too many RC bugs in R packages, so we should be OK.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like to be Beethoven, and Bach tells us what it's like to be the universe. -- Douglas Adams
