On 12 October 2017 at 16:18, Sébastien Villemot wrote: | On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:13:54AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > | > On 12 October 2017 at 15:58, Sébastien Villemot wrote: | > | Thanks Charles for explaining this. | > | | > | Actually the migration has already happened, thanks to the Release Team that | > | took appropriate action to mitigate the impact of the most recent uploads. | > | | > | This will soon be reflected in the tracker and various web pages. | > | | > | R-related uploads can therefore be resumed. | > | > Nice. | > | > Was there a way to read that off the (otherwise very impressive and helpful) | > tracker status page? Or was is somewhere else? | | For the moment you can only see it on the main archive database: | | $ rmadison r-base | r-base | 2.15.1-4 | oldoldstable | source, all | r-base | 3.1.1-1 | oldstable-kfreebsd | source, all | r-base | 3.1.1-1+deb8u1 | oldstable | source, all | r-base | 3.3.3-1~bpo8+1 | jessie-backports | source, all | r-base | 3.3.3-1 | stable | source, all | r-base | 3.4.2-1 | testing | source, all | r-base | 3.4.2-1 | unstable | source, all | | > This was a good dry run. Come R 3.5.0 next April we actually MUST rebuild | > all packages rather than just doing it because we can. I'll circle back | > closer to the date, the r-devel branch upstream is still a little shaky. | | Ok, looking forward to it. | | When it is ready, please follow the transition guidelines which are summarized | there: | | https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam/Transitions | | The short version of it is: please open a transition bug and wait for an ack | from the Release Team *before* uploading R 3.5 to unstable (but of course you | are free to upload to experimental sooner).
Rest assurred I will definitely circle back with you and Charles :-) Debian work can still be a pleasure when you get some work done with clueful people. And yes, the hint re 3.5 being shaky leads itself to uploading to experimental. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org