On 27 April 2017 at 11:37, Don Armstrong wrote: | On Thu, 27 Apr 2017, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > I don't know, and I tend not to run dated r-base-core packages. | | I'll try to check this out later.
Thanks! | > Is that what debian/control ensures? | | Cool; I didn't check to see whether the substitution variable had been | updated. I feel like we have had the substitution of R (>= 'currentBuildVersion') for a decade. | > I uploaded one beta build to experimental. Approximately nobody uses | > those. | | Yeah, that's always a problem. | | > The 'blocking' mechanism really works. R 3.4.0 will not seep into | > testing. | | The problem isn't that R won't enter testing, but that any package which | builds against R has to be rebuilt using the R in testing and uploaded | to testing-proposed-updates. Yes, I hear you on that one. | That's a pretty painful thing to have to do. [Luckily, R is leaf enough | that there aren't too many RC bugs in R packages, so we should be OK.] Fingers crossed :) Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
