On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 04:27:25PM +0000, Globe Trotter wrote: > FWIW, here is another example where this caused problems: > https://stackoverflow.com/q/44834208/479426 > > -- > Respectfully, the above package is not from R, but R-forge. If > contributors who are not part of the R ecosystem do not want to > update their packages, then not much more can be done and the issue > is not resolved even if you wait for the move to a later version of > Fedora.
This is the whole point of having versions of Fedora, though. > In any case, with Fedora supposed to be a leading-edge system, I feel > that we should keep updates happening promptly. Of course, one could > also have a R-prev or something like that in case someone wanted to > keep the older version. I prefer having the latest versions in R. We _are_ a leading edge system, but leading edge of stuff that works, with the newest stuff in the latest version. This is and has been Fedora policy for a long time. > On the other hand, conveniently, R releases just a few weeks before a > Fedora release. This term it is much longer because Fedora 26 slipped > schedules pretty badly. Right -- this is one of the reasons to keep to the schedule. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
