On 30 May 2018 at 23:40, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: | Control: tags -1 confirmed | | On 28/05/18 15:00, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: | > On 28/05/18 14:32, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | >> | >> On 28 May 2018 at 14:08, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: | >> | Control: tags -1 - confirmed | >> | | >> | On 28/05/18 13:08, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: | >> | > Control: tags -1 confirmed | >> | > | >> | > On 23/04/18 13:57, Sébastien Villemot wrote: | >> | >> Package: release.debian.org | >> | >> Severity: normal | >> | >> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org | >> | >> Usertags: transition | >> | >> X-Debbugs-Cc: debia...@lists.debian.org | >> | >> | >> | >> Dear Release Team, | >> | >> | >> | >> Please schedule a transition for R 3.5, which has just been uploaded to | >> | >> experimental. | >> | >> | >> | >> Due to changes in R internals, all R extension packages must be recompiled, | >> | >> that is 573 packages (of which 260 are arch:all, and will therefore need | >> | >> sourceful uploads). | >> | >> | >> | >> The transition will be managed jointly by Dirk Eddelbuettel and the Debian R | >> | >> Packages Team¹ (which ideally should be kept in CC of replies). | >> | >> | >> | >> We have not tried to recompile the 500+ packages, but we don’t expect any major | >> | >> issue. And should some arise, we stand ready to fix them. | >> | > | >> | > Go ahead with the transition. | >> | | >> | NACK. Let's wait for the curl transition, as this would clash with that one. | >> | >> What is your expectation concerning the timeline? | >> | >> R 3.5.0 is already over one month old. It would be good to have the | >> transition going. | > | > This can go after the curl transition, which has just started. So whatever that | > takes, which will depend on whether any packages fail to build and how long it | > takes to solve them. curl was waiting for longer and is blocking other | > transitions, so that's why it went first, but after that there should be no | > blockers for R 3.5. | | curl migrated to testing today. Please go ahead with R 3.5.
Yay!! Thank you -- and r-base_3.5.0-3 is now in incoming awaiting inclusion into unstable. Dirk | Emilio -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org