[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#1109894: unblock: rkward/0.8.0-4.2 (pre-approval)

[Santiago Vila]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 01:58:32PM +0200, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> Hi Santiago,
> 
> I am not part of the release team.
> 
> An alternative option would be to revert src:r-base in unstable to the
> version in testing to comply with the freeze policy [1]. Please use the
> +really convention in such a case [2].
> 
> [1] https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html#hard
> [2] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#epochs-should-be-used-sparingly

We already considered that. The r-base package has a lot of reverse-dependencies,
but rkward is a leaf package. At this point of the release cycle, updating
rkward seems a lot less risky option than re-uploading r-base again.

(Also: I'm not the r-base maintainer, I just joined efforts with Dirk to
try to salvage rkward).

Thanks.