On 12 October 2017 at 17:45, Graham Inggs wrote: | Hi Dirk | | On 12/10/2017 16:37, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > And yes, the hint re 3.5 being shaky leads itself to uploading to experimental. | | Would you please consider versioning such uploads as 3.5~something | instead of 3.4.something? | | e.g. your second-to-last upload of r-base was 3.4.1.20170921-1 | I think it would have been clearer if it were versioned 3.4.2~20170921-1 | or even 3.4.2~rc1-1 | | This also allows for things like Depends: r-base-core (>= 3.4.2~) should | they ever be needed.
Could do, I think, and once did. Grep'ing debian/changelog: edd@bud:~$ grep "^r-base.*\~" src/debian/R/R-3.4.2/debian/changelog | wc -l 71 edd@bud:~$ grep "^r-base.*\~" src/debian/R/R-3.4.2/debian/changelog | head r-base (3.0.1~20130512-1) unstable; urgency=low r-base (3.0.0~20130330-1) unstable; urgency=low r-base (3.0.0~20130327-1) unstable; urgency=low r-base (3.0.0~20130324-1) unstable; urgency=low r-base (2.15.3~20130327-1) unstable; urgency=low r-base (2.15.3~20130326-1) unstable; urgency=low r-base (2.15.3~20130324-1) unstable; urgency=low r-base (2.15.1~20120617-1) unstable; urgency=low r-base (2.15.0~20120323-1) unstable; urgency=low r-base (2.15.0~20120317-1) unstable; urgency=low edd@bud:~$ So we did this 71 times, but stopped 4+ years ago. Not sure what got the toolchain coughing, but I guess we could try again. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org