Hi Johannes,
On 20 August 2020 at 18:27, Johannes Ranke wrote: | Hi Dirk, hi all, | | ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- | | Betreff: Accepted mgcv 1.8-32-1 (source) into unstable | Datum: Donnerstag, 20. August 2020, 18:06:49 CEST | Von: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org> | An: debian-devel-chan...@lists.debian.org | | Format: 1.8 | Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 10:41:33 -0500 | Source: mgcv | Architecture: source | Version: 1.8-32-1 | Distribution: unstable | Urgency: medium | Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> | Changed-By: Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> | Changes: | mgcv (1.8-32-1) unstable; urgency=medium | . | * New upstream release | . | * debian/control: Set Build-Depends: to current R version | | ---snip--- | | This message reminded me that I never got the point of why the adaptation of | the build dependency is necessary or beneficial for these uploads of CRAN | packages to unstable. Shouldn't they build on older R versions as well, as | demonstrated by the CRAN checks? Somewhat wrong list. You want to talk to the debian-r folks who wrote this. See debia...@lists.debian.org which should be open to join. Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
