On 28 March 2017 at 14:16, Adrian Bunk wrote: | On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:09:28AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: | > ... If you want to fix the issue inside | > r-cran-rcppgsl package you need to either convince the release team to | > accept this new upstream version or revert the new version by using an | > epoch. I have CCed the release team where you can get advise about the | > most favourable solution for this issue. | | I am not a member of the release team, but there would be a better | solution than using an epoch:
I also dislike epochs and try to avoid them where I can. | Uploads to testing-proposed-updates are working fine. I could re-upload. Dirk | | There are not common ([1] says there were 2 this month so far), | and the upload of the new version should have gone to experimental | instead of unstable during the freeze, but in the current situation | a separate upload to testing-proposed-updates would be a better option | than a permanent epoch. | | > Kind regards | > | > Andreas. | | cu | Adrian | | [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-changes/2017/03/threads.html | | -- | | "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out | of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. | "Only a promise," Lao Er said. | Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
