On 17-Jul-09 15:20:10, Michael Dewey wrote: > At 15:21 07/07/2009, Johannes Ranke wrote: > >>Dear all, >> >>You can now find i386 and amd64 packages of R 2.9.1 compiled for lenny >>in the usual place on CRAN. >> >>I have switched from using permanent schroot environments to >>exclusively >>using pbuilder, in order to check build dependencies as early in the >>process as possible. >> >>Is anyone in need of an R 2.9.1 backport to etch (oldstable)? I do not >>need it myself, so I am thinking of leaving it at R 2.9.0 for etch. > > Johannes, nobody else seems to have replied to the list but I for one > would welcome continued backports to etch-cran although it is not > necessary to have all the minor releases (if that is the right name, > the ones which only differ after the second .). Perhaps I should say > why? I have a netbook (EEEPC) which would probably be tricky to > upgrade and I am not yet confident enough to wipe the whole thing and > restart with Ubuntu. > > Thanks to you and the others on the team who make installation so > straightforward enough for novices like me.
May I add my voice to this? (I somehow overlooked it originally). I'm actively running Etch for main work (though experimentally trying Lenny on another machine -- so far, Etch seems to suit my tastes better). Therefore having etch-cran kept up to date would be welcome. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 17-Jul-09 Time: 16:37:20 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
