[R-pkg-team] Bug#1135162: r-cran-reticulate: New version available, and R 4.6.0 recompilation needed

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Package: r-cran-reticulate
Version: 1.41.0.1+dfsg-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: edd at debian.org,debian-r at lists.debian.org

As described on debian-r, and backed up by a bit more writing on 
https://github.com/eddelbuettel/R-4.6.0-binary-transition, the now-released 
R 4.6.0 tightened what it exposes in header files (mostly to allow the R 
team to change internals without exposing these). This required upstream 
changes for some package, and (r-cran-)reticulate is one of them. In any
event, the current version does not load:

  root at unstable_docker:~$ lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID: Debian
  Description:    Debian GNU/Linux forky/sid
  Release:        n/a
  Codename:       forky
  root at unstable_docker:~$ Rscript -e 'library(reticulate)'
  Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘reticulate’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
   unable to load shared object '/usr/lib/R/site-library/reticulate/libs/reticulate.so':
    /usr/lib/R/site-library/reticulate/libs/reticulate.so: undefined symbol: Rf_GetOption
  Execution halted
  root at unstable_docker:~$ 

The just-released version 1.46 will fix this, an update would be appreciated.

Thanks, Dirk

-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers questing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'questing-updates'), (500, 'questing-security'), (500, 'questing'), (100, 'questing-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.17.0-20-generic (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages r-cran-reticulate depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.42-0ubuntu3.1
ii  libgcc-s1                15.2.0-4ubuntu4
ii  libstdc++6               15.2.0-4ubuntu4
ii  python3                  3.13.7-1
ii  r-base-core [r-api-4.0]  4.6.0-0.2404.1
pn  r-cran-here              <none>
pn  r-cran-jsonlite          <none>
ii  r-cran-matrix            1.7-5-1.2404.0
pn  r-cran-png               <none>
pn  r-cran-rappdirs          <none>
pn  r-cran-rcpp              <none>
pn  r-cran-rcpptoml          <none>
pn  r-cran-rlang             <none>
pn  r-cran-withr             <none>

Versions of packages r-cran-reticulate recommends:
pn  r-cran-callr      <none>
pn  r-cran-cli        <none>
pn  r-cran-glue       <none>
pn  r-cran-knitr      <none>
pn  r-cran-pillar     <none>
pn  r-cran-rmarkdown  <none>
pn  r-cran-testthat   <none>

r-cran-reticulate suggests no packages.