On 28 May 2018 at 14:08, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: | Control: tags -1 - confirmed | | On 28/05/18 13:08, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: | > 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. | | NACK. Let's wait for the curl transition, as this would clash with that one.
What is your expectation concerning the timeline? R 3.5.0 is already over one month old. It would be good to have the transition going. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org