On 16 March 2017 at 07:33, Charles Plessy wrote: | Hi Dirk and Salvatore, | | > From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> | > On 11 March 2017 at 17:56, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: | > | | > | The relevant changes seem to be the following, but I might be mistaken. (btw, | > | is there a VCS repository for r-base or does upstream not share development | > | VCS?) | > | > They do at svn.r-project.org -- but that isn't browsable -- and the | > community has a mirror here https://github.com/wch/r-source | | Actually there is anonymous access: | | $ svn log https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ | head | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | r72357 | luke | 2017-03-16 04:32:54 +0900 (jeu. 16 mars 2017) | 4 lignes | | Use two uniforms in sample() for higher precision when the uniform | generator is one of the Knuth generators or a user-defined generator | and the population size is at least 2^25. | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | r72356 | luke | 2017-03-16 03:58:45 +0900 (jeu. 16 mars 2017) | 2 lignes Sorry, I was sloppy. What I meant to say is that a) the SVN has no easy 'browser' and b) is not that advertised.
But yes, "everybody" can have a checkout. I have been building r-devel locally for years as package authors are encouraged to test on r-devel too. | But the GitHub mirror is likely to be more convenient Yup. | > | Can you as well please make sure with the release team that the fix might enter | > | for stretch? | > | > How would I do that? Suggest current upstream 3.3.3 to be passed down, or | > prepare a 'testing-security' upload? | | Actually, I see 3.3.3 in testing already. Great. | On my side, I plan to fix the security issue in jessie-backports by | updating it to 3.3.3 as well. Appreciate that. I still have to do / help with 'oldstable-security'. Everybody has been super helpful, especially when I was a few thousand miles away and my server was down (for something caused by power / a storm) :-/ Dirk | Have a nice day, | | -- | Charles -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
