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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Dirk,

On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 12:53:36PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | 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 :-/

After having read parts of the thread on debian-devel it became not
clear to me whether you are honestly considering R 3.x as a target for
Wheezy.  If yes I'd perfectly understand the storm.  When I wrote my
answer to your mail I understood your attempt in a way like:  All
r-cran-* packages are free of RC bugs (I did not checked this
asusmption) and chances that this will change after 9 months of freeze
are pretty low so no changes in testing are to be seriously expected.
All r-cran-* packages uploaded now are a target for Wheezy+1 and in case
of an accidental RC bug we have sorted out means with release team to
use testing-proposed-uploads.  I was only slightly mentioning freeze
time because I'm not that involved in R packaging to know all those
things I would have been expected to be sorted out in advance.

If I missinterpreted your plan and the issue was not discussed in
advance I hesitate to confirm the upload you were asking for.  Sorry if
I might have awaken a wrong impression after beeing a bit behind
current status after Easter holidays.

I'd like to come back to my previously repeated suggestion to create an
R packagers team as it has proven to be very effective for several
language teams.  There you can easily spread such information and
announce large scale transition to new versions.  It would prevent me
from assuming everything was sorted out nicely "behind the scenes"
because it comes cheap to check some mailing list archive of the team.

> | 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.

Considering the unclear situation I'd think the term "carefully" applies
best for an upload to experimental rather than unstable.

Kind regards

       Andreas. 

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