A new major release R 3.0.0 will come out on Wednesday April 3rd, as usual according the the release plan and announcements [1].
It contains major internal changes [2] and requires rebuilds of all R packages. As I usually do, I started packaging pre-releases and rc candidates [3] based on March 24, 27 and 30 snapshots. Michael Rutter, who tirelessly backports (most of) my Debian R packages to Ubuntu, has also made builds of these R packages [4]. As for unstable, we have an issue as essentially all reverse-dependencies that are R packages will need to be rebuilt [5]. On testing, I get for 158 packages from `apt-cache rdepends r-base-core | grep -c r-cran-`. I maintain the core set ("r-recommended") and a bunch of others which I have rebuilt over the last two or three days: abind-1.4-0 quadprog-1.5-4 boot-1.3-9 Rcmdr-1.9-6 cairoDevice-2.19 RColorBrewer-1.0-5 car-2.0-16 Rcpp-0.10.3 chron-2.3-43 relimp-1.0-3 class-7.3-7 rgl-0.93.928 cluster-1.14.4 RGtk2-2.20.25 codetools-0.2-8 rJava-0.9-4 date-1.2.33 Rmpi-0.6-3 DBI-0.2-5 rms-3.6-3 digest-0.6.3 RMySQL-0.9-3 foreach-1.4.0 robustbase-0.9-7 foreign-0.8.53 RODBC-1.3-6 gdata-2.12.0 rpart-4.1-1 getopt-1.19.1 Rserve-0.6-8.1 gtools-2.7.1 rsprng-1.0 KernSmooth-2.23-10 Rsymphony-0.1-15 Hmisc-3.10-1 RUnit-0.4.26 iterators-1.0.6 sandwich-2.2-10 lattice-0.20-15 slam-0.1-28 latticeExtra-0.6-24 sm-2.2-4.1 lme4-0.999999-0 sn-0.4-17 lmtest-0.9.30 snow-0.3.12 lpSolve-5.6.7 spatial-7.3-6 mgcv-1.7-22 stabledist-0.6-5 MASS-7.3-26 strucchange-1.4-7 Matrix-1.0-12 survival-2.37-4 mvtnorm-0.9-9994 timeDate-2160.97 mnormt-1.4-5 timeSeries-3000.96 multicore-0.1-7 tkrplot-0.0.23 multcomp-1.2-17 tseries-0.10-30 nlme-3.1.109 urca-1.2-7 nnet-7.3-6 XML-3.96-1.1 polspline-1.1.7 zoo-1.7-9 and I should get to these over the next day or two doMC-1.3.0 fPortfolio-2130.80 doSNOW-1.0.6 fRegression-2160.77 effects-2.2.4 fTrading-2160.77 fAsianOptions-3000.78 fUnitRoots-2160.77 fAssets-2110.79 gmodels-2.15.3 fBasics-2160.85 gplots-2.11.0 fBonds-2160.76 gregmisc-2.1.2 fCopulae-3000.79 hdf5-1.6.10 fExoticOptions-2152.78 int64-1.1.2 fExtremes-2160.78 its-1.1.8`8 fGarch-2150.81 misc3d-0.8-4 fImport-3000.82 nws-2.0.0.3 fMultivar-2152.77 rggobi-2.1.19 fNonlinear-2160.77 Rglpk-0.3-10 fOptions-2160.82 RQuantlib-0.3.10 Based on a simple script (running on testing rather than unstable) I get the following set of unique maintainers of related packages: Chris Lawrence <lawre...@debian.org> Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packag...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> Julian Gilbey <j...@debian.org> Philip Rinn <ri...@gmx.net> The Debichem Group <debichem-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> and I am CCing everybody now to see if they could please rebuild the packages within a week or so. Come next weekend we'll review and switch to direct email pings. Comments, suggestions, ... most welcome. Please CC me on replies as I am no longer subscribed to debian-devel. Cheers, Dirk [1] http://developer.r-project.org [2] See the NEWS file; big one is overcoming vector index index limit 2^31-1 [3] http://changelogs.debian.net/r-base (covers two of the three) [4] See his blog at http://www.personal.psu.edu/mar36/blogs/the_ubuntu_r_blog/blog/ and his post to the r-sig-debian list [5] All r-cran-* and r-bioc-* and ... package; embedding apps such as rkward, postgresql-plr or cantor or may not need to be rebuilt -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20824.26651.775823.264...@max.nulle.part