[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#1105174: src:rkward: fails to migrate to testing for too long

Santiago Vila sanvila at debian.org
Fri Jul 25 00:18:56 BST 2025


Hello.

This package should propagate to testing to fix RC bug #1103204.

However, it has r-base-core (>= 4.5.1-1) in its Depends line, while
r-base-core in trixie is at version 4.5.0-3, so the migration
will not happen in a natural way.

After asking Dirk (maintainer of R packages, in CC) for advice about
this, it seems there are basically two ways to deal with this.

A) Make an upload for trixie-proposed-updates. This would put the
package directly in trixie with >= trixie-version.

B) Hardcode (>= 4.5.0-3) (or maybe 4.5.0-3~ or just 4.5.0) in the
control line, only for trixie, and only as a one-time thing. Dirk
tells me that in cases like this one, this would be ok, as R does not
really care about such minor versioning.

Please indicate if you (maintainers of rkward) are available to fix
this, because otherwise Dirk tells me he would be willing to NMU
the package to handle the issue.

Thanks.



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