On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 07:17:59AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Santiago, > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 10:24:11PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > So, would this patch to the current r-base package improve things if > > applied to the version in unstable? > > [...] > > While this would create a versioned dependency relation which would > allow to migrate r-cran-epi to testing I'm personally lacking the > technical knowledge whether this is the correct solution. From my point > of view the correct approach would be to create an r-base-core package > which declares a stable ABI and packages should depend from the ABI > version. However, its way to late for implementing this in Jessie and > the R maintainer is not willing to do this anyway (at least he was not > when we discussed this in Wheezy freeze time[1]).
I was proposing this patch not as a fix for Bug #704805, but as a way to avoid the big mess created by the upload of R 3.1.2 for unstable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141112163406.ga5...@cantor.unex.es