[Debian-med-packaging] R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Mon Apr 1 17:53:36 UTC 2013


Hi Andreas,

On 1 April 2013 at 19:11, Andreas Tille wrote:
| Hi Dirk,
| 
| thanks for your continuous work on R.  If you feel that the current
| point in time (freeze time) is no problem (from my perspective it is OK
| - just mentioning it) I think uploading the R packages maintained by

It's delicate. I too think it is ok, but I set off quite the storm of "what
on earth were you thinking" on debian-devel :-/

| Debian Science and Debian Med is fine.  Please make sure you commit the
| changes to the according VCS (ACL permissions are set for DDs for both
| VCS).

Ok, wI may give that a try, and will certainly try to treat carefully.

Cheers, Dirk

| 
| Kind regards
| 
|        Andreas.
| 
| On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 11:45:15AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > 
| > A new major release R 3.0.0 will come out on Wednesday April 3rd, as usual
| > according the the release plan and announcements [1]. 
| > 
| > It contains major internal changes [2] and requires rebuilds of all R
| > packages.  As I usually do, I started packaging pre-releases and rc
| > candidates [3] based on March 24, 27 and 30 snapshots.
| > 
| > Michael Rutter, who tirelessly backports (most of) my Debian R packages to
| > Ubuntu, has also made builds of these R packages [4].  
| > 
| > As for unstable, we have an issue as essentially all reverse-dependencies
| > that are R packages will need to be rebuilt [5]. On testing, I get for
| > 158 packages from `apt-cache rdepends r-base-core | grep -c r-cran-`. 
| > 
| > I maintain the core set ("r-recommended") and a bunch of others which I have
| > rebuilt over the last two or three days:
| > 
| >    abind-1.4-0                quadprog-1.5-4     
| >    boot-1.3-9                 Rcmdr-1.9-6           
| >    cairoDevice-2.19           RColorBrewer-1.0-5 
| >    car-2.0-16                 Rcpp-0.10.3           
| >    chron-2.3-43               relimp-1.0-3          
| >    class-7.3-7                rgl-0.93.928          
| >    cluster-1.14.4             RGtk2-2.20.25         
| >    codetools-0.2-8            rJava-0.9-4           
| >    date-1.2.33                Rmpi-0.6-3            
| >    DBI-0.2-5                  rms-3.6-3             
| >    digest-0.6.3               RMySQL-0.9-3          
| >    foreach-1.4.0              robustbase-0.9-7   
| >    foreign-0.8.53             RODBC-1.3-6           
| >    gdata-2.12.0               rpart-4.1-1           
| >    getopt-1.19.1              Rserve-0.6-8.1     
| >    gtools-2.7.1               rsprng-1.0            
| >    KernSmooth-2.23-10         Rsymphony-0.1-15   
| >    Hmisc-3.10-1               RUnit-0.4.26          
| >    iterators-1.0.6            sandwich-2.2-10    
| >    lattice-0.20-15            slam-0.1-28           
| >    latticeExtra-0.6-24        sm-2.2-4.1            
| >    lme4-0.999999-0            sn-0.4-17             
| >    lmtest-0.9.30              snow-0.3.12        
| >    lpSolve-5.6.7              spatial-7.3-6         
| >    mgcv-1.7-22                stabledist-0.6-5   
| >    MASS-7.3-26                strucchange-1.4-7  
| >    Matrix-1.0-12              survival-2.37-4    
| >    mvtnorm-0.9-9994           timeDate-2160.97   
| >    mnormt-1.4-5               timeSeries-3000.96 
| >    multicore-0.1-7            tkrplot-0.0.23     
| >    multcomp-1.2-17            tseries-0.10-30    
| >    nlme-3.1.109               urca-1.2-7            
| >    nnet-7.3-6                 XML-3.96-1.1          
| >    polspline-1.1.7            zoo-1.7-9          
| > 
| > and I should get to these over the next day or two
| > 
| >    doMC-1.3.0                 fPortfolio-2130.80 
| >    doSNOW-1.0.6               fRegression-2160.77
| >    effects-2.2.4              fTrading-2160.77   
| >    fAsianOptions-3000.78      fUnitRoots-2160.77  
| >    fAssets-2110.79            gmodels-2.15.3      
| >    fBasics-2160.85            gplots-2.11.0       
| >    fBonds-2160.76             gregmisc-2.1.2      
| >    fCopulae-3000.79           hdf5-1.6.10         
| >    fExoticOptions-2152.78     int64-1.1.2         
| >    fExtremes-2160.78          its-1.1.8`8         
| >    fGarch-2150.81             misc3d-0.8-4        
| >    fImport-3000.82            nws-2.0.0.3         
| >    fMultivar-2152.77          rggobi-2.1.19       
| >    fNonlinear-2160.77         Rglpk-0.3-10        
| >    fOptions-2160.82           RQuantlib-0.3.10    
| > 				 
| > Based on a simple script (running on testing rather than unstable) I get the
| > following set of unique maintainers of related packages:
| > 
| >    Chris Lawrence <lawrencc at debian.org>
| >    Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org>
| >    Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
| >    Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
| >    Julian Gilbey <jdg at debian.org>
| >    Philip Rinn <rinni at gmx.net>
| >    The Debichem Group <debichem-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
| > 
| > and I am CCing everybody now to see if they could please rebuild the packages
| > within a week or so.  Come next weekend we'll review and switch to direct
| > email pings.
| > 
| > Comments, suggestions, ... most welcome.  Please CC me on replies as I am no
| > longer subscribed to debian-devel.
| > 
| > Cheers, Dirk
| > 
| > 
| > [1] http://developer.r-project.org
| > [2] See the NEWS file; big one is overcoming vector index index limit 2^31-1  
| > [3] http://changelogs.debian.net/r-base  (covers two of the three)
| > [4] See his blog at http://www.personal.psu.edu/mar36/blogs/the_ubuntu_r_blog/blog/
| >     and his post to the r-sig-debian list
| > [5] All r-cran-* and r-bioc-* and ... package; embedding apps such as
| >     rkward, postgresql-plr or cantor or may not need to be rebuilt
| > 
| > -- 
| > Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
| > 
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