Control: tags -1 confirmed On 23/04/18 13:57, Sébastien Villemot wrote: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: transition > X-Debbugs-Cc: debia...@lists.debian.org > > Dear Release Team, > > Please schedule a transition for R 3.5, which has just been uploaded to > experimental. > > Due to changes in R internals, all R extension packages must be recompiled, > that is 573 packages (of which 260 are arch:all, and will therefore need > sourceful uploads). > > The transition will be managed jointly by Dirk Eddelbuettel and the Debian R > Packages Team¹ (which ideally should be kept in CC of replies). > > We have not tried to recompile the 500+ packages, but we don’t expect any > major > issue. And should some arise, we stand ready to fix them.
Go ahead with the transition. Cheers, Emilio