On 2013-02-28 20:57, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Hi Niels, > > On 28 February 2013 at 20:37, Niels Thykier wrote: > | Hi Dirk, > | > | The fix for #700498 is currently stuck in unstable due to a dependency > | on a versioned dependency on r-base (or an binary built by r-base). At > | this point we are not ready to accept the changes to r-base for Wheezy. > | So, I was hoping that we convince you to upload a fix for #700498 to > | testing-proposed-updates. > > Sure -- always happy to help the releases. >
Thanks for your prompt reply, it is much appreciated. :) > But could you be a tiny bit more explicit and tell me what you want me to > fix, where I need to upload, etc or I may get this messed. > > The changelog doesn't show me what I did wrong: > Sure, but you have not done anything wrong in your r-cran-dosnow upload. It is just that we would like the missing r-cran-snow dependency bug to be fixed in testing and we cannot take it via unstable[1]. > r-cran-dosnow (1.0.6-2) unstable; urgency=low > > * debian/control: Added r-cran-snow to Depends (Closes: #700498) > > * debian/control: Set Build-Depends: to current R version > * debian/control: Set Standards-Version: to current version > > -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:33:14 -0600 > > Are you asking for a build under a different R version? Basically, yes. A build of r-cran-dosnow in a testing chroot. > Couldn't you just make a binary NMU with a different Build-Depends? > To my knowledge we (still) cannot do binNMUs of a package in a different suite. But even if we could, we still need a source upload of r-cran-dosnow because it has a versioned Build-Depends on r-cran-dev that can only be satisfied in sid. :) > We have an informal policy to release r-cran-* packages _for unstable_. So I > always encode the then-current version via Build-Depends. On Feb 13, that > will have been R 2.15.2 aka r-base-core_2.15.2. > In this case, we need a one-time exception to that policy and the package must be built in a clean chroot using only packages from testing. > "Upstream" for r-cran-dosnow has much weaker requirements. It would probably > build on stable... but I frankly do not know where to upload to. The > version in unstable has the correct control file. > > Dirk, generally busy > > | > | ~Niels > | > Please target "testing-proposed-updates" (instead of "unstable" or "sid"). ~Niels [1] ... or rather, if we were to take it, it would include a new upstream release of r-base and we are not ready to accept that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/512fbb4d.20...@thykier.net
