Hi Andreas, On 10 August 2017 at 15:36, Andreas Beckmann wrote: | On Sun, 6 Aug 2017 08:15:17 -0500 Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: | > Let's get these 46 packages rebuilt so that r-base 3.4.1 can migrate to | > testing. | | Disclaimer: I don't know anything about R or the R packaging.
No worries. | | Isn't it possible to use some virtual r-abi-WHATEVER package(s) to make | such transitions easier to spot and manage in the future? S.t. it can be | described in a ben file instead of manually compiling a list of binNMUs. | (Ideally such a thing should be in place before performing a "last | round" of manual binNMUs). Absolutely. We _have_ that now. [1] The r-base-core package provides it, and each package depends on it. Witness: edd@bud:~$ apt-cache show r-base-core | grep Provides | head -1 Provides: r-api-3, r-base-latex, r-cran-rcompgen, r-gnome edd@bud:~$ apt-cache show r-cran-digest | grep r-api- Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), r-base-core (>= 3.3.1-1), r-api-3 edd@bud:~$ But the whole point of my bug report, and write up, is that 46 out of 516 package need a rebuild. So I continue to argue [2] that we should rebuild these 46, not force all 516. Happy to discuss in detail in person in a video conf or call ... Dirk [1] Disclaimer: I resisted this a little, but it is the right thing to do. And we *will* need it next spring when R 3.5.0 *will* bring ABI changes. [2] http://eddelbuettel.github.io/rcppapt/binnmuAfterR340.html -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org