On 24 September 2017 at 22:20, Charles Plessy wrote: | Le Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 11:58:20AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : | > | > May I assume that some of you who sp tiredlessly argued for it will now liase | > with the release team to get 500+ forcefully rebuilt? | | > r-base (3.4.1.20170921-1) unstable; urgency=medium | > | > * Initial rc build (r73337) of R 3.4.2 expected for Sep 28 | > | > * debian/control: Package r-base-core now 'Provides: r-api-3.4' per the | > Debian Release team. I still consider this to be wrong (as there was | > no API change) but my hands are tied here. | | Thanks a lot Dirk for doing this. (Note that since the string | 'r-api-3.4' is entirely arbitrary, it can be changed to something | technically more neutral, like 'r-debian-epoch-3.4' or whatever is | better).
No, not entirely arbitrary. It needs to match this line in r-cran.mk (indented for readability and 80 cols here) rapiversion := $(shell dpkg-query -W -f='$${Provides}' r-base-core | \ grep -o 'r-api[^, ]*') so it actually has to start with 'r-api'. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org